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Parental investment and the intergenerational transmission of economic preferences
Zumbühl M.A.; Pfann G.A.; Pfann G.A.; Dohmen T.J. - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2013
We study empirically whether there is scope for parents to shape the economicpreferences and attitudes of their children through purposeful investments. Weexploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children, as well as rich information about parental efforts in the...
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The pre-tracking effects of parental background
Korthals R.A. - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2015
recommendation as compared to the other recommendations, for students whose parents have a tertiary education degree are between 1 ….6 and 3.6 times greater than for students whose parents only have a primary education degree. For the math exit test score I …
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'High' achievers? Cannabis access and academic performance
Marie O.; Zölitz U.N. - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2015
This paper investigates how legal cannabis access affects student performance.Identification comes from an exceptional policy introduced in the city of Maastrichtwhich discriminated legal access based on individuals nationality. We apply a difference in-difference approach using administrative...
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Terrorism and integration of Muslim immigrants
de, Grip A.; Elsayed A.E.A. - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2013
immigrants in the Netherlands towards integration. Shortly after the attacks, Muslim immigrants perceived integration, as … measured by various indicators, decreased significantly relative to that of non-Muslims immigrants whereas there is no evidence …
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Can gender differences in the educational performance of 15-year old migrant pupils be explained by the gender equality in the countries of origin and destination?
Kornder N.; Dronkers J.; Dronkers J. - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2013
We try to explain the differences between the performance (in both reading and math) of 8430 15-year-old daughters and 8526 15-year-old sons in 17 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development destination countries across Europe and Oceania with the PISA 2009 data from 45 origin...
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The effects of higher education programme characteristics on allocation and performance of the graduates: a European view
Hans, Heijke; Christoph, Meng - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2006
transition from education to the labour market. Using a unique data set on the labour market situation of graduates in nine … European countries, we investigate the significance of five characteristics of the higher education programmes: (1) The … occupations.First, our results reveal in particular the importance of the competence orientation of the education programme …
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What affects lifelong learning of scientists and engineers?
de, Grip Andries; Wendy, Smits - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2009
This paper greatly enriches the discussion on the determinants of lifelong learning of scientists and engineers (S&Es). In our analysis, which is based on a survey among S&Es in the Netherlands, we take account of both formal training and different modes of informal learning. We find that S&Es...
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Are Courses Chosen to Reduce Skill-Deficiences? An Experimental Approach
Lex, Borghans; Bart, Golsteyn - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2007
Do people choose courses to reduce work-related skill-deficiencies, and do theychoose courses deliberately? We measure the skill-deficiency for six skills andperform an experiment in which workers are offered three courses related tothese skills. They may exchange these courses for other...
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Determinants of dropout behaviour in a job training programme for disadvantaged youths
de, Crombrugghe Denis; Henry, Espinoza; Hans, Heijke - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2010
A general conclusion of the youth job training programme (YJTP) evaluationliterature is that these programmes are more effective when completed. Yet,YJTPs suffer from substantial dropout problems. This paper studies the extent ofthe dropout phenomenon and under which circumstances dropout is...
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Why do low-educated workers invest less in further training?
Didier, Fouarge; Trudie, Schils; de, Grip Andries - Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA), … - 2010
Several studies document the fact that low-educated workers participate less often infurther training than high-educated workers. The economic literature suggests thatthere is no significant difference in employer willingness to train low-educated workers,which leaves the question of why the low...
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