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Immigrant Concentration at School and Natives' Achievement : Does the Type of Migrants and Natives Matter?
Bossavie, Laurent - 2017
Using a rich dataset of primary school students in the Netherlands, this paper investigates the heterogeneous effects … takes advantage of some features of the Dutch primary school system and uses cohort-by-cohort deviations in immigrant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950369
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Comment on David Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney (2008): “Education and Health: Evaluating Theories and Evidence”
Hlavac, Marek - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In a recent research paper, health economists David Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney analyze data primarily from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), an annual cross-sectional household survey administered by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) at the Centers for Disease...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833273
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Health behaviors and education in Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Karaoglan, Deniz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This is the first study which provides empirical analysis of the variation in health behaviors for adult men and women in Turkey which is a developing country. The health behaviors considered are smoking, drinking, fruit and vegetable consumption, exercise and body mass index (BMI). We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111859
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Intergenerational interactions in human capital accumulation
Woźny, Łukasz; Growiec, Jakub - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
We analyze an economy populated by a sequence of generations who decide over their consumption levels and the levels of investment in human capital of their immediate descendants. The objective of the paper is to identify the impact of strategic interactions between consecutive generations on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005786888
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Intertemporal Substitution in Maternal Labor Supply: Evidence using State School Entrance Age Laws
Barua, Rashmi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
of variation in maternal net earning opportunities, generated through school entrance age of children, to study … in school attendance on long run maternal labor supply. To deal with the endogeneity of school attendance age, I exploit … old enrolled in school increases labor supply measures for married women, with no younger children, by between 7 to 34 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789712
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Notas sobre Descomposiciones Microeconométricas: Un Análisis Antropométrico
Lopez-Pablos, Rodrigo A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This essay presents a theoretic approximation on the microeconometric decompositions analysis by incorporating anthropometric variables, and apprainsing theirs presumable effects on the income distribution. A new body-mass-index based equivalent scale is proposed toward more accurate individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837316
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Health Consequences of Child Labour in Bangladesh
Ahmed, Salma; Ray, Ranjan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper examines the effect of child labour on child health outcomes in Bangladesh. We use self-reported injury or illness due to work as a general measure of health status. Using the Bangladesh National Child Labour Survey data for 2002-2003, the results reveal that child labour is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107472
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Elegance with substance
Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
impossible to provide good didactics on what is inherently illogical. Basic observations: We would presume that school … reasoning, they all are hindered and obstructed. Mathematics forms a core element in education and destroys much of school life … of pupils and students in their formative years. Basic analysis: This situation arises not because it is only school math …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980386
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Social Sector Development in South West Bengal
Majumder, Rajarshi; Ray, Jhilam; Sen, Anindita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Development economics in recent years have become more people centric than before. It has rediscovered that human beings are both the means and the end of economic development process, and without Human Development that process becomes a hollow rhetoric. The maze of technical concepts and growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258151
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Arbeitszeitarrangements - Neue Ergebnisse aus der nationalen Zeitbudgeterhebung 2001/02 im Zeitvergleich zu 1991/92
Merz, Joachim; Burgert, Derik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Der Diskussion um neue Arbeitszeitarrangements und flexible Arbeitszeiten fehlt bislang die empirische Grundlage auf der Basis von personenbezogenen Mikrodaten. Gegenstand unserer Studie Arbeit ist es, Abweichungen vom Normalarbeitstag in zwei Dimensionen zu untersuchen: zum einen in der...
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