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Health, wealth, and happiness : why pursue a higher education?

Hartog, Joop; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 1997

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How risky is investment in human capital?

Hartog, Joop; Ophem, Hans van; Bajdechi, Simona Maria - 2004

skewed. Our best guess of ex ante risk in university education is a coefficient ofvariation of about 0.3, comparable to that …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335192

Is child like parent? : educational attainment and ethnic origin

Gang, Ira N.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999

difference in favor of father's education over mother's education. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011313954

Health, wealth and happiness : why pursue a higher education

Hartog, Joop; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 1997

-vocational intermediate level education: they score highest on health, wealth and happiness. We find that IQ affects health, but not wealth or …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336355

Why do we ignore the risk in schooling decisions?

Hartog, Joop; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - In: De economist : Netherlands economic review ; quarterly … 163 (2015) 2, pp. 125-153

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How risky is investment in human capital?

Hartog, Joop; Ophem, Hans van; Bajdechi, Simona Maria - 2004

positively skewed. Our best guess of ex ante risk in university education is a coefficient of variation of about 0.3, comparable …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450523

Health, wealth and happiness : why pursue a higher education?

Hartog, Joop - In: Economics of education review 17 (1998) 3, pp. 245-256

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001249512

Job status, international migration and educational choice

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2020

choose the non-professional education track. Those who might have otherwise pursued higher, professional education may forgo … education since, they will be overqualified in the host country. This will have a long run affect. As time goes on, therefore …

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Sibling rivalry in educational attainment : the German case

Bauer, Thomas K.; Gang, Ira N. - 2000

Recent studies exploring sibling rivalry in the allocation of household resources in the U.S. produce conflicting results. We contribute to this discussion by addressing the role of sibling rivalry in educational attainment in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) we are able to...

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Who matters most? : the effect of parent's schooling on children's schooling

Gang, Ira N. - 1996

This paper examines the differential effects of mother's schooling and father's schooling on the acquisition of schooling by their offspring. It does this in a 'cross-cultural' context by comparing results across three countries: Germany, Hungary and the Former Soviet Union. It looks within...

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