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The Neighbourhood Is Not What It Used to Be
Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - 2003
Using a variance decomposition framework which provides bounds on the effect of families and neighbourhoods, we find …. Neighbourhoods are less important than families, as the correlations among siblings are significantly higher than among children …
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The neighbourhood is not what it used to be: Has there been equalisation of opportunity across families and communities in Norway?
Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - 2001
bounds on the effect of families and neighbourhoods, we find important effects of family characteristics as well as … residential location on educational attainment and adult earnings in Norway. Families are more important than neighbourhoods as … increasing equality of opportunity in Norway. Our results differ from previous US studies, suggesting that the role of families …
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Noncognitive Skills, School Achievements and Educational Dropout (Revised Version)
Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - 2010
We analyse the determinants of dropout from secondary and vocational education in Germany using data from the Socio-Economic Panel from 2000 to 2007. In addition to the role of classical variables like family background and school achievements, we examine the effect of noncognitive skills. Both,...
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Noncognitive skills, school achievements and educational dropout
Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - 2009
We analyse the determinants of dropout from secondary and vocational education in Germany using data from the Socio-Economic Panel from 2000 to 2007. In addition to the role of classical variables like family background and school achievements, we examine the effect of noncognitive skills. Both,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298791
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High? : The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Births
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2004
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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Why the apple doesn't fall far : understanding intergenerational transmission of human capital
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2003
Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely that more able individuals who have higher education...
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Self-Productivity and Complementarities in Human Development: Evidence from MARS
Laucht, Manfred; Coneus, Katja; Blomeyer, Dorothea; … - 2008
This paper investigates the role of self-productivity and home resources in capability formation from infancy to adolescence. In addition, we study the complementarities between basic cognitive, motor and noncognitive abilities and social as well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from...
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The Asset Demand for Children During Agricultural Modernization
Stark, Oded - In: Population and Development Review 7 (1981) 4, pp. 671-675
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Bargaining, Altruism, and Demographic Phenomena
Stark, Oded - In: Population and Development Review 10 (1984) 4, pp. 679-692
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Measuring Heterogeneity in the Returns to Education in Norway Using Educational Reforms
Aakvik, Arild; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Vaage, Kjell - 2003
The decision to take more education is complex, and is influenced by individual ability, financial constraints, family background, preferences, etc. Such factors, normally unobserved by the researcher, introduce endogeneity and heterogeneity problems into estimating the returns to education. In...
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