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educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this literature and examine children's secondary school track choice in … paternal risk preferences but a strong negative impact of maternal risk aversion on children's enrollment in upper secondary …
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first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents' ethnic identity affects the next generation's human capital accumulation … - even controlling for differences in ethnicity, family background and years-since-migration. Additional tests show that the …
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Looking at smoking-behavior it can be shown that there are differences concerning the time-preference-rate. Therefore this has an effect on the optimal schooling decision in the way that we assume a lower average human capital level for smokers. According to a higher time-preference-rate we...
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disparities across male and female occupations are due to gender devaluation. …
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The outcome of pursuing an upper or post-secondary education degree is uncertain. A student might not complete a chosen degree for a number of reasons, such as insufficient academic preparation or financial constraints. Thus, when considering whether to invest in post-secondary education,...
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into music training, we take into account detailed information on parents, which may determine both the decision to pursue …
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-Economic Panel from 2000 to 2007. In addition to the role of classical variables like family background and school achievements, we …
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We analyze self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants and test our theory in the context of the European refugee crisis. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World Polls, we provide the first large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and...
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We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on educational attainment. The theoretical framework is based on models of allocation of time and educational productivity. Using the rich information from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized...
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family background, thus face similar difficulties as migrant children. Our results point at more general inequalities in …We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to … receive recommendations for or to enroll at any secondary school type as native children. Comparable natives, in terms of …
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