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Leadership at school : does the gender of siblings matter?
Brunello, Giorgio; De Paola, Maria - 2012
and Japan to investigate whether these behaviors in middle and high school are affected by the gender composition of … males and for females in the US and the probability of sport participation for males in Japan. We also find that parental … education matters more for these behaviors in the US than in Japan, and that in the latter country the oldest son or daughter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009663904
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Years of Schooling, Human Capital and the Body Mass Index of European Females
Brunello, Giorgio; Fabbri, Daniele; Fort, Margherita - 2010
We find that the protective effect of years of schooling on the BMI of European females is non negligible, but smaller than the one recently found for the US. By using individual standardized cognitive tests instead of years of schooling as the measure of education we show that the current focus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600905
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Are Wages in Southern Europe More Flexible? : The Effects of Cohort Size on European Earnings
Brunello, Giorgio; Lauer, Charlotte - 2004
study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the data of all countries, we find that cohort size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262046
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Years of schooling, human capital and the body mass index of European females
Brunello, Giorgio; Fabbri, Daniele; Fort, Margherita - 2009
We use the compulsory school reforms implemented in European countries after the II World War to investigate the causal effect of education on the Body Mass Index (BMI) and the incidence of overweight and obesity among European females. Our IV estimates suggest that years of schooling have a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271261
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Are Wages in Southern Europe more Flexible? The Effects of a Cohort Size on European Earnings
Brunello, Giorgio; Lauer, Charlotte - 2005
study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the data of all countries, we find that cohort size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297452
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Books are forever: Early life conditions, education and lifetime earnings in Europe
Brunello, Giorgio; Weber, Guglielmo; Weiss, Christoph T. - 2012
We estimate the effect of education on lifetime income in Europe, by distinguishing between individuals who lived in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332243
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The causal effect of education on health: What is the role of health behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2012
We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health education gradient by distinguishing between short-run and long-run mediating effects: while in the former only behaviors in the immediate past are taken into account, in the latter we consider the entire history of behaviors....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332393
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Books are forever: Early life conditions, education and lifetime income
Brunello, Giorgio; Weber, Guglielmo; Weiss, Christoph T. - 2012
In this paper we estimate the effect of education on lifetime earnings in Europe, by distinguishing between individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282568
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The causal effect of education on health: What is the role of health behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2011
In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286261
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Bridge jobs in Europe
Brunello, Giorgio; Langella, Monica - 2012
had different effects in Central / Northern Europe (Austria, Switzerland, The Netherlands and Sweden) and in Mediterranean … Europe (Italy and Spain). In the North, transitions into bridge jobs have increased, with no significant effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289975