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when exposed to a higher share of girls at school. The opposite is true for girls who have sisters. We also show that the …
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dispersion of parental education in the school increases. We also show that boys with sisters who are exposed to a higher share … of girls at school have poorer employment prospects. The opposite is true for girls who have sisters. Overall, the size …
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We show that, when school quality is measured by the educational standard and attaining the standard requires costly … relatively high cost of effort, who would find the high standards of the public school excessively demanding. With the key …
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We show that, when school quality is measured by the educational standard and attaining the standard requires costly … relatively high cost of effort, who would find the high standards of the public school excessively demanding. With the key …
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school, we show that, depending on the underlying parameters of the model, a market structure with the private school … offering at a positive price lower quality than the public school can be an equilibrium. The calibrated parameters for Italy …
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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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This paper is an empirical investigation of the complementarity between education and training in 13 European countries, based on the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). After confirming the standard result that training incidence is higher among individuals with more education, I find...
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