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The health returns to education : what can we learn from twins?
Lundborg, Petter - 2008
This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin-differences strategy in order to obtain estimates that are not biased by unobserved family background and genetic traits that may affect both education and health. I further investigate to what...
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The effect of Sibling's gender on earnings, education and family formation
Peter, Noemi; Lundborg, Petter; Webbink, Herman Dinand - 2015 - This version: May 2015
We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, childrenś gender affects not only the outcomes of other children but also the very existence of...
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Skills, parental sorting, and child inequality
Nybom, Martin; Plug, Erik J. S.; Klaauw, Bas van der; … - 2022 - This version: December 2022
show that in the second half of the 20th century more skilled students increasingly enrolled in college and ended up with …
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Grade expectations : rationality and overconfidence
Magnus, Jan R.; Peresetsky, Anatoly A. - 2017
students' forecasts of their exam grades. Part of a student's grade expectation is based on the student's previous academic … five hundred second-year undergraduate students enrolled in a statistics course in Moscow. The course contains three exams … and each student produces a forecast for each of the three exams. Students' expectations are not rational and most of …
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Nobel students beget Nobel professors
Tol, Richard S. J. - 2022
the effect of proximity to previous Nobelists on winning the Nobel Prize. Conditional on being Nobel-worthy, students and …
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Parental education and child health : evidence from a schooling reform
Lindeboom, Maarten; Nozal, Ana Llena; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2006
This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we explore exogenous variation in parental education induced by a schooling reform in 1947, which raised the minimum school leaving age in the UK. Findings based on data from the...
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Is earnings uncertainty relevant for educational choice? : an experimental analysis for China
Hartog, Joop; Ding, Xiaohao; Liao, Juan - 2011
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Is earnings uncertainty relevant for educational choice? : an empirical analysis for China
Hartog, Joop; Ding, Xiaohao; Liao, Juan - 2011 - This draft April 28 2011
We use the method of Dominitz and Manski (1996) to solicit anticipated wagedistributions for continuing to a Master degree or going to work after completing theBachelor degree. The means of the distributions have an effect on intention to continue aspredicted by theory. The dispersions in these...
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Unobserved heterogeneity and risk in wage variance: does schooling provide earnings insurance?
Mazza, Jacopo; Ophem, Hans van; Hartog, Joop - 2011
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The health returns to education - what can we learn from Twins?
Lundborg, Petter - 2008
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