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potential underlying mechanisms linking education and health behaviors by showing that increasing schooling also raised …
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.e. income, happiness, job and life satisfaction, health status. Nevertheless, to date few systematic efforts have been made to … satisfaction and health status. The tentative explanations of my empirical findings are: (a) people experience large mismatches in … aspirations/expectations early in adult life; (d) the latter mismatches depend on education and are largely confined to the labour …
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categories, in which norms are formed and education effort choices partly depend on these norms. Optimal tax policy is analyzed …
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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...
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National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS) and other secondary data sources, we examine the link between students' access to … implications of our findings in guiding education policy activities in rural America. …
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Il dibattito sulla frammentazione e fragilità del sistema imprenditoriale italiano di fronte alle sfide dell’economia della conoscenza e dell’internazionalizzazione si intreccia con quello relativo al funzionamento dei meccanismi di generazione e di allocazione del capitale umano. Tale...
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nature of entrepreneurial talent and the specific role of education in entrepreneurial selection and performance. Empirical … studies on entrepreneurship do not offer a neat picture of the actual contribution of education to entrepreneurial human …
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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...
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education is often cited as a determining factor for the labor market success of immigrants. This suggests that entirely … 1988 until 2002 in order to document ethnic differences in education, including grades and field of education, and … subsequent labor market outcomes. Results indicate both initial differences in youth labor market status and long term …
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We study peer effects in education. We first develop a network model that predicts a relationship between own education … and peers’ education as measured by direct links in the social network. We then test this relationship using the four … education since a standard deviation increase in peers’ education attainment translates into roughly a 10 percent increase of a …
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