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The effect of education on health : evidence from the 1997 compulsory schooling reform in Turkey
Baltagi, Badi H.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Karatas, Haci M. - 2019
This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well … statistically significant favorable effect of education on health outcomes and behavior. However, this relationship becomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159294
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Losing prospective entitlement to unemployment benefits : impact on educational attainment
Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it makes the consequences of unemployment less severe. We evaluate a two-part policy reform in Belgium to study whether conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment...
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Driver of returns to schooling : education-related policies or family background?
Soon, Jan-Jan; Lim, Hock Eam - 2024 - Version: August 2024
Does schooling pay off? - a seemingly straightforward question, but it is in fact a puzzle among economists. Answers would differ based on how the returns to schooling are estimated. Among the top concerns is whether such estimations have any causal connotation between the amount of schooling...
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Delayed graduation and university dropout : a review of theoretical approaches
Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2019
This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two...
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Parental gender stereotypes and student wellbeing in China
Chu, Shuai; Zeng, Xiangquan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020
Non-cognitive abilities are supposed to affect student's educational performance, who are challenged by parental expectations and norms. Parental gender stereotypes are shown to strongly decrease student wellbeing in China. Students are strongly more depressed, feeling blue, unhappy, not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012316309
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Health inequality among Chinese older adults : the role of childhood circumstances
Yan, Binjian; Chen, Xi; Gill, Thomas M. - 2020
health, self-rated health to mortality. Our analytic sample includes about 8,000 Chinese persons age above 60. Using the …This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the … contributions may vary across key dimensions of health. We link the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149043
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Education effects on days hospitalized and days out of work by gender : evidence from Turkey
Tansel, Aysıt; Keskin, Halil Ibrahim - 2017
The strong relationship between various health indicators and education is widely documented. However, the studies that … work for health reasons. We consider two educational reforms. One is the educational expansion of the early 1960s and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129887
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The impact of compulsory schooling on earnings : evidence from the 1999 education reform in Poland
Liwiński, Jacek - 2018
In 1999, a reform of education was implemented in Poland, which added one year to the shortest available educational path, leading to the acquisition of basic vocational education. In the new system, students choosing this path acquire one more year of general education, which, according to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129951
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What drives social returns to education? : a meta-analysis
Cui, Ying; Martins, Pedro S. - 2020
Education can generate important externalities that contribute towards economic growth and convergence. In this paper, we study the drivers of such externalities by conducting the first meta- analysis of the social returns to education literature. We analyse over 1,000 estimates from 31 articles...
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Returns to education in the Russian Federation : some new estimates
Melianova, Ekaterina; Parandekar, Suhas; Patrinos, … - 2020
This paper presents new estimates of the returns to education in the Russian Federation using data from 1994 to 2018. Although the returns to schooling increased for a time, they are now much lower than the global average. Private returns to education are three times greater for higher education...
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