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Using information on job changes and search behavior of workers and controlling for endogenous mobility we study firm-size wage differentials in Switzerland. We find that the observed cross-sectional firm size premium cannot be explained exclusively by worker heterogeneity. Almost 50 % of the...
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Several recent studies based on 'exogenous' sources of variation in education outcomes show Instrumental Variables (IV …
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age who receive less education because of the war. This paper shows that in the European countries involved in World War … II, children who were ten years old during the conflict were significantly less likely to proceed into higher education … those individuals who did not reach higher education because of the conflict and we calculate the implied loss of GDP for …
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Many recent studies that were based on "exogenous" sources of variation in education outcomes' IV estimates of returns …
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Several recent studies based on "exogenous" sources of variation in education outcomes show Instrumental Variables (IV …
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receive less education because of the war. We show that Austrian and German individuals who were ten years old during or … immediately after the conflict received less education than individuals in other cohorts. On the contrary, we find no effect for … Austrian and German cohort whose education was affected by the war experienced an earnings loss some forty years after the end …
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We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source … of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on … the number of biological kids and the incidence of childlessness. Wend that more education causes a substantial decrease …
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We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … we consider the entire history of behaviors. We use an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of education and … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education …
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We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source … of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on … the number of biological kids and the incidence of childlessness. We find that more education causes a substantial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009324255
We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source … of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on … the number of biological kids and the incidence of childlessness. We find that more education causes a substantial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325427