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Genetic Fortune : Winning or Losing Education, Income, and Health
Kweon, Hyeokmoon; Burik, Casper; Karlsson Linnér, Richard - 2020
-economic status and better health, partly via intervenable environmental pathways such as education. The positive returns to schooling … education, income, and health are partly due the outcomes of a genetic lottery. However, the consequences of different genetic … endowments are malleable, for example via policies that target education …
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Using Genes to Explore the Effects of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills on Education and Labor Market Outcomes
Buser, Thomas; Ahlskog, Rafael; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2023
attainment. Our results also demonstrate that education and labor market outcomes are partially the result of a genetic lottery. …
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Seeing the World with Different Eyes
Koellinger, Philipp; Minniti, Maria; Schade, Christian - 2008
Across countries, women own significantly fewer businesses than do men. We show that this is due, in large part, to the fact that the propensity to start businesses of women is significantly lower than that of men. The lower propensity of women, in turn, appears to be highly correlated to...
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