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students are doing better in math and science and are more likely to choose those subjects if they are in single-sex classes … coedu- cational classes on the choice of school type for female students. We propose that girls are less likely to choose a … students. We address the problem of endogenous school choice by using natural variation in gender composition of adjacent …
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students are doing better in math and science and are more likely to choose those subjects if they are in single-sex classes … coedu-cational classes on the choice of school type for female students. We propose that girls are less likely to choose a … students. We address the problem of endogenous school choice by using nat-ural variation in gender composition of adjacent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294871
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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 current or lagged behaviors are taken into account, in the latter we consider the entire history of behaviors. We...
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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 current or lagged behaviors are taken into account, in the latter we consider the entire history of behaviors. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325756
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/10009278192
We study the relationship between education and cognitive functioning at older ages by exploiting compulsory schooling reforms, implemented in six European countries during the 1950s and 1960s. Using data of individuals aged 50+ from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010860381
foundations for career choices are laid much earlier. Educational experts claim that female students are doing better in math and … coeducational classes on the choice of school type for female students. Using natural variation in the gender composition of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011049013
We study the relationship between education and cognitive functioning at older ages by exploiting compulsory schooling reforms, implemented in six European countries during the 1950s and 1960s. Using data of individuals aged 50+ from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010627822
migrant students in a major Austrian city between 1980-2001. The outcome measures of interest are track attendance after … primary education and grade repetition. Using variation in the fraction of students with migration background among adjacent … cohorts within schools and drawing special attention to time trends, the analysis shows that migrant students suffer from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010627825