This paper estimates the causal effects of parental education on their children's risky health behaviours and health … often result from unhealthy lifestyles. No such effects can be identified for paternal education. Increased investments in … children's education and improvements in their peer environment early in life are important for explaining the effects. Changes …

This article proposes an estimation approach for panel models with mixed continuous and ordered categorical outcomes …

In this paper I investigate the causal returns to education for different educational groups in Germany by employing a … find that the causal return to education is 8.5% for the entire sample, 2.3% for graduates from the basic school track and … to education ; wage equation ; control function approach ; second moment exclusion restriction …

We assess the relevance of formal education for the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between … employment options. We expect differences in the returns to education between these groups because of different levels of control …. We use the German Socio-economic Panel and account for the endogeneity of education and non-random selection. The results …

In this paper I investigate the causal returns to education for different educational groups in Germany by employing a … find that the causal return to education is 8.5% for the entire sample, 2.3% for graduates from the basic school track and … to education ; wage equation ; control function approach ; second moment exclusion restriction …

, we analyse the effect of a German education reform that increased weekly instruction hours by two hours (6.5 percent …