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Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that … income with all but undergraduate level of education. However, random effects and matching models suggest that entrepreneurs … have lower incomes. We also analyze those who changed careers. Those with higher level of education are more likely to …
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Research suggests that teenage childbearing adversely affects both the outcomes of the mothers as well as those of their children. We know that low-educated women are more likely to have a teenage birth, but does this imply that policies that increase educational attainment reduce early...
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variables (average age, average mother's education) have little impact on the outcomes of teenagers. …
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Economists and social scientists have long been interested in intergenerational mobility, and documenting the persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research. However, since Gary Solon's 1999 Chapter in the Handbook of Labor Economics, the literature has...
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Given the wide use of childcare subsidies across countries, it is surprising how little we know about the effect of these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are able to isolate the effects of childcare subsidies on...
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We investigate whether acquiring more education when young has long-term effects on risk-taking behavior in financial … are more likely to invest in the stock market. However, little is known about whether this is a causal effect of education … or whether it arises from the correlation of education with unobserved characteristics. Using exogenous variation in …
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Statistics Finland. We analyze emigration events lasting at least five years and decompose migrant self-selection into education … positively self-selected in terms of education and earnings. We also find strong evidence of sorting: men who emigrate outside …
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increasing in male primary earner s income, and in most specifications in female primary earner s income. Higher education of …
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