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Does timing of health and family planning services matter? : age at first birth and educational attainment in Indonesia

Strupat, Christoph - 2014

also stay longer in post-primary school. According to the average returns of education in Indonesia, I conclude that family …

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Occupational mismatch of immigrants in Europe : the role of education and cognitive skills

Çim, Merve; Kind, Michael Sebastian; Kleibrink, Jan - 2017

measured in terms of education, is often regarded as a waste of human capital. Such discussions, however, ignore the imperfect …

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The effect of schooling age on fertility

Schaffner, Sandra; Siebert-Meyerhoff, Andrea - 2017

Fertility rates decline in most developed countries. This is especially true for Germany. Fertility is highly correlated with the skill level of women. The age at school enrolment and therefore the age at graduation depends on the month of birth. Children born before the cut-off date start...

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Early- and later-life stimulation : how retirement shapes the effect of education on old-age cognitive abilities

Schmitz, Hendrik; Westphal, Matthias - 2025

We study the interaction of education in adolescence and labor force participation around retirement age and its effect … on cognitive abilities for individuals in Europe. Besides a direct long-run effect of education, indirect ones may arise … and heterogeneous treatment effects and use it to identify indirect effects within the education effect. We find that …

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School starting age and the gender pay gap over the life cycle

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Westphal, Matthias - 2024

system of ability tracking in secondary education, a potential driver of longterm effects. We confirm negligible effects of …

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Young FSU migrants in Germany : educational attainment and early labor market outcomes

Flake, Regina - 2013

This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational attainments than natives, and that within the group of...

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Fertility effects of college education : evidence from the German educational expansion

Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Westphal, Matthias - 2017

We estimate the effects of college education on female fertility - a so far understudied margin of education, which we … instrument by arguably exogenous variation induced through college expansions. While college education reduces the probability of … becoming a mother, college-educated mothers have slightly more children than mothers without a college education. Unfolding the …

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Educational mismatch and mobility

Roller, Christiane; Rulff, Christian; Tamminga, Michael M. - 2019

With increasing educational attainment in Germany, the issue of inefficient human capital allocation gains importance. Especially overeducation seems to be a problem, since more and more highly educated individuals are required to take jobs that do not match their educational level, settling for...

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Understanding cognitive decline in older ages : the role of health shocks

Schiele, Valentin; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2021

can reduce the negative consequences of a health shock. Our results suggest that neither compulsory education nor …

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The long-term effect of age at school entry on competencies in adulthood

Görlitz, Katja; Penny, Merlin; Tamm, Marcus - 2019

The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger classmates on competency tests taken between kindergarten and Grade 10. This study analyzes whether these effects of school starting age continue into adulthood. Based on data on math...

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