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The Health Returns to Education - What can we learn from Twins?
Lundborg, Petter - Tinbergen Institute - 2008
This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin … both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with … education on health. Higher educational levels are found to be positively related to self-reported health but negatively related …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005795566
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The Health Returns to Education - What can we learn from Twins?
Lundborg, Petter - Tinbergen Instituut
This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin … both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with … education on health. Higher educational levels are found to be positively related to self-reported health but negatively related …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256609
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Selective Secondary Education and School Participation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Malawi
Hoop, Jacobus de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
have implications for education policy in Sub-Saharan Africa. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255467
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Does Relative Grading help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom
Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255550
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Measuring Externalities in Program Evaluation
Janssens, Wendy - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
Impact evaluations of development programmes usually focus on a comparison of participants with a control group. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the programme’s impact. Based on a unique large-scale quantitative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255655
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Do Stepping Stone Jobs exist? Early Career Paths in the Medical Profession
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Holm, Anders; Ours, Jan C. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999
In the Netherlands, students who want to become a medical specialist have toenrol in a training program which is in limited supply. During the search for aposition as trainee (or "junior medical specialist"), they may accept atemporary job as a medical assistant. We use a micro data set to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256256
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Measuring Externalities in Program Evaluation
Janssens, Wendy - Tinbergen Institute - 2005
Impact evaluations of development programmes usually focus on a comparison of participants with a control group. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the programme’s impact. Based on a unique large-scale quantitative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137159
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Do Stepping Stone Jobs exist? Early Career Paths in the Medical Profession
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Holm, Anders; Ours, Jan C. van - Tinbergen Institute - 1999
In the Netherlands, students who want to become a medical specialist have to enrol in a training program which is in limited supply. During the search for a position as trainee (or "junior medical specialist"), they may accept a temporary job as a medical assistant. We use a micro data set to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504947
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Selective Secondary Education and School Participation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Malawi
Hoop, Jacobus de - Tinbergen Institute - 2010
have implications for education policy in Sub-Saharan Africa. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838576
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Returns for Entrepreneurs versus Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vis-à-vis Wage Employees
Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2009
How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences …? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of … US labor force participants. We show that education affects peoples’ decisions to become an entrepreneur negatively. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008513241