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Education and Health: The Role of Cognitive Ability
Bijwaard, Govert; van Kippersluis, Hans; Veenman, Justus - 2013
We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality using a structural equation model suggested by Conti et al. (2010). We extend their model by allowing for a duration dependent variable, and an ordinal educational variable. Data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329178
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Education, Intelligence and Diseases in Old Age
Niccodemi, Gianmaria; Bijwaard, Govert - 2018
Several studies have found a positive association between education and health. Confounding factors that a ect both education choices and health, such as (ob- served) parental background and (unobserved) intelligence, may play an important role in shaping this association. In this paper we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931570
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Education and Health: The Role of Cognitive Ability
Bijwaard, Govert; van Kippersluis, Hans; Veenman, Justus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality using a structural equation model suggested by Conti et al. (2010). We extend their model by allowing for a duration dependent variable, and an ordinal educational variable. Data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011201761
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Access to banking services and poverty reduction: a state-wise assessment in India
Bhandari, Amit K. - 2009
poorest sections of society. In India, financial inclusion emphasizes to include maximum number of people under formal … access to bank accounts. The present study investigates the drive to financial inclusion in the form of the growth in bank … bank accounts is not significantly associated with the reduction in below poverty line population across states. Providing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269187
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Stuck in the Slow Lane: Traffic Composition and the Measurement of Labor Productivity in the U.S. Trucking Industry
Boyer, Kenneth D.; Burks, Stephen V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Mirroring the railroad industry of the 1940’s and 1950’s, the trucking industry today appears to be achieving impressive productivity gains. But it is easy to confuse true productivity advances in transportation industries with changes in ton-miles per unit of input that are due simply to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822793
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Public infrastructure, location of private schools and primary school attainment in an emerging economy
Pal, Sarmistha - 2009
using community, school and child/household-level PROBE survey data from five north Indian states provide some support to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269650
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Does Management Matter in Schools?
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014
Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468154
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Multitasking and Subjective Performance Evaluations: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in a Bank
Manthei, Kathrin; Sliwka, Dirk - 2018
experiment conducted in a bank. In the treatment group managers obtained access to objective performance measures which raised …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873585
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The Effect of Employment Protection on Worker Effort: A Comparison of Absenteeism During and After Probation
Ichino, Andrea; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2001
. Our analysis is based on weekly observations for the 858 white collar workers hired by a large Italian bank between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262589
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Executive Compensation and Competition in the Banking and Financial Sectors
Guadalupe, Maria; Cuñat, Vicente - 2004
This paper studies the effect of product market competition on the compensation packages that firms offer to their executives and in particular its impact on the sensitivity of pay to performance. To measure the effect of competition we use two different identification strategies on a panel of...
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