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Earnings dispersion, risk aversion and eduation

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002

We estimate a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the degree of risk aversion can be inferred from schooling decisions. In our model, individuals are heterogeneous with respect to school and market abilities but homogeneous with respect to the degree of risk aversion. We...

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Endogenous schooling and the distribution of the gender wage gap

Hansen, Jörgen; Wahlberg, Roger - 1999

Previous studies on gender wage discrimination have relied on OLS when estimating the wage equations. However, there exists a number of recent studies, devoted to estimating the return to education, that have shown that OLS may produce biased estimates for a number of reasons. Consequently, if...

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Earnings dispersion, risk aversion and eduation

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002

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Endogenous schooling and the distribution of the gender wage gap

Hansen, Jörgen; Wahlberg, Roger - 1999

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Education and earnings growth : evidence from 11 European countries

Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona - 2000

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Earnings dispersion, risk aversion and education

Belzil, Christian - 2002

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The economic returns to schooling for Italians : an evaluation based on instrumental variables

Brunello, Giorgio; Miniaci, Raffaele - 1998

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School quality and family background in Italy

Brunello, Giorgio; Checchi, Daniele - 2003

in Italy between the end of IIWW and the end of 1980s had a significant impact on the educational attainment and labor …

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Absolute risk aversion and the returns to education

Brunello, Giorgio - 2000

Individual absolute risk aversion is measured for a sample of 1373 male household heads, using the 1995 wave of the Survey on the Income and Wealth of Italian households. This measure, conditional on financial and real wealth and household income, is used as an instrument for attained education...

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The returns to education in Italy : a new look at the evidence

Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona; Lucifora, Claudio - 2000

Italy. First, we show that, whilst returns to education in Italy (based on gross wages) are in line with the European … marginal return to the marginal cost of education – we speculate that either marginal costs are steeper in Italy or that a … larger share of the population involved in human capital investment faces high marginal costs in Italy compared to the …

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