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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262388
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The risk-return trade-off in human capital investment
Christiansen, Charlotte; Schrøter Joensen, Juanna; … - 2006
In this paper we analyze investments in human capital assets in a way which is standard for financial assets, but not (yet) for human capital assets. We study mean-variance plots of human capital assets. We compare the properties of human capital returns using a performance measure and by using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276649
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The Mincer human capital model in Pakistan: Implications for educational policy
Abbasa, Qaisar; Foreman-Peck, James - 2007
This paper estimates and interprets returns to education for three sub-sectors of labour market by gender in Pakistan … from the basic Mincer model; generally poor quality primary schooling and family unwillingness to invest in female …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322803
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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Daoud, Yousef - 2011
to education are higher for women than men in both countries; the gender gap has worsened in 2008, but more so for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500181
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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Daoud, Yousef - 2011
to education are higher for women than men in both countries; the gender gap has worsened in 2008, but more so for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320529
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The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital: Immigrant Earnings in Canada
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with proficiency in the official languages (English and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262796
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Zero returns to compulsory schooling in Germany: evidence and interpretation
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; von Wachter, Till - 2005
We estimate the impact of compulsory schooling on earnings using the changes in compulsory schooling laws for secondary schools in West German states during the period from 1948 to 1970. While our research design is very similar to studies for various other countries, we find very different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277103
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Beyond the classroom: Using title IX to measure the return to high school sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates - to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates - in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266109
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Smoking and Returns to Education: Empirical Evidence for Germany
Reilich, Julia - 2011
Looking at smoking-behavior it can be shown that there are differences concerning the time-preference-rate. Therefore this has an effect on the optimal schooling decision in the way that we assume a lower average human capital level for smokers. According to a higher time-preference-rate we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601062
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Child mental health and educational attainment: Multiple observers and the measurement error problem
Johnston, David; Propper, Carol; Pudney, Stephen; … - 2011
personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational progress. Our contribution is to use … progress. Maternal education and mental health, family income, and major adverse life events, are all significant in explaining … educational progress. We also find a strong tendency for observers to understate the problems of older children and adolescents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288335