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The economics of human development and social mobility
Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - 2014
transfer policies to poor families significantly boost child outcomes. Mentoring, parenting, and attachment are essential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252655
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The wage returns to education over the life-cycle : heterogeneity and the role of experience
Buscha, Franz; Dickson, Matt - 2015
This paper re-examines the wage returns to the 1972 Raising of the School Leaving Age (RoSLA) in England and Wales using a high-quality administrative panel dataset covering the relevant cohorts for almost 40 years of their labour market careers. With best practice regression discontinuity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428026
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Why is old workers' labor market more volatile? : unemployment fluctuations over the life-cycle
Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François; Sopraseuth, … - 2014
Since the last recession, it is usually argued that older workers are less affected by the economic downturn because their unemployment rate rose less than the one of prime-age workers. This view is a myth: older workers are more sensitive to the business cycle. We document volatilities of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339640
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Life-cycle educational choices : evidence for two German cohorts
Biewen, Martin; Tapalaga, Madalina - 2016
We study life-cycle educational transitions in an education system characterized by early tracking and institutionalized branches of academic and vocational training but with the possibility to revise earlier decisions at later stages. Our model covers all major transitions ranging from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452037
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Birth weight in the long-run
Bharadwaj, Prashant; Lundborg, Petter; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2015
We study the effect of birth weight on long-run outcomes, including permanent income, income across various stages of the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this purpose, we have linked a unique dataset on nearly all Swedish twins born between 1926-1958,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295561
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Vocational vs. general education and employment over the life-cycle : new evidence from PIAAC
Hampf, Franziska; Woessmann, Ludger - 2016
It has been argued that vocational education facilitates the school-to-work transition but reduces later adaptability to changing environments. Using the recent international PIAAC data, we confirm such a trade-off over the life-cycle in a difference-in-differences model that compares employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571978
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Do pension benefits accelerate cognitive decline? : evidence from rural China
Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2019
The Post-9/11 GI Bill allows service members to transfer generous education benefits to a dependent. We run a large-scale experiment to test whether active choice framing impacts US Army service members' decision to transfer benefits. Individuals who received email messages framing GI Bill use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060578
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Modeling life-cycle earnings risk with positive and negative shocks
Sanchez, Manuel; Wellschmied, Felix - 2017
We study workers' idiosyncratic earnings risk over the life-cycle using a German administrative data set. Positive and negative earnings shocks both contain a highly persistent component. The variance and average size of positive persistent shocks is decreasing over the life-cycle. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011709932
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Getting ahead : the determinants of and payoffs to internal promotion for young U.S. men and women
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2001
Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this paper examines the role of gender in the promotion …. Specifically, how do the factors related to promotion differ for men and women? How do gender differences in promotion translate … into differences in subsequent wage growth? To what extent does the promotions gap contribute to the gender wage gap? In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401197
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Peers' composition effects in the short and in the long run : college major, college performance and income
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2015
and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283120