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Books are forever: Early life conditions, education and lifetime income
Brunello, Giorgio; Weber, Guglielmo; Weiss, Christoph T. - 2012
In this paper we estimate the effect of education on lifetime earnings in Europe, by distinguishing between individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282568
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Diverging Patterns of Education Premium and School Attendance in France and the US: A Walrasian View
de la Croix, David; Docquier, Frédéric - 2003
We evaluate the effect of technology, demographics and policy on the differential evolution of the skill premium and on the rise in education investment in France and the USA. We use a computable general equilibrium model with overlapping generations of individuals, and endogenous education...
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Education, Growth and Income Inequality
Teulings, Coen N.; van Rens, Thijs - 2002
Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the private return to schooling. We present a simple explanation combining two ideas: imperfect substitution and endogenous skill-biased technological progress and use cross-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324788
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Earnings Inequality, Returns to Education and Immigration into Ireland
Barrett, Alan; FitzGerald, John; Nolan, Brian - 2000
Increasing earnings inequality has been an important feature of the US and UK labour markets in recent years. The increase appears to be related to an increased demand for skilled labour and an increase in the returns to education. In this paper we examine what has happened to earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262376
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The health returns to education: what can we learn from twins?
Lundborg, Petter - 2008
This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin-differences strategy in order to obtain estimates that are not biased by unobserved family background and genetic traits that may affect both education and health. I further investigate to what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268848
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Selection Bias, Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Returns to Education: Evidence from China in 2000
Heckman, James Joseph; Li, Xuesong - 2003
This paper uses newly available Chinese micro data to estimate the return to college education for late 20th century China when allowing for heterogeneous returns among individuals selecting into schooling based on these differences. We use recently developed semiparametric methods to identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274202
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The Health Returns to Education - What can we learn from Twins?
Lundborg, Petter - 2008
This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin-differences strategy in order to obtain estimates that are not biased by unobserved family background and genetic traits that may affect both education and health. I further investigate to what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325854
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Parental education, grade attainment and earnings expectations among university students
Delaney, Liam; Harmon, Colm P.; Redmond, Cathy - 2011
and unique dataset of university students. While large socio-economic differences in academic performance exist at the … differences across socio-economic backgrounds in university grade attainment for female students is explained by intermediating … variables such as personality, risk attitudes and time preferences, and subject/college choices. However, for male students, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278508
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Study achievement for students with kids
Hallberg, Daniel; Lindh, Thomas; éZamac, Jovan - 2011
In this paper we explore the composition of students, the study length towards diploma, and examine the likelihood of … female university students in Sweden has children. In Sweden as in many other countries enrollment periods have been … achievement we find that students with children seem to be somewhat more efficient in their studies among those who have graduated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321155
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The Elusive Concept of Immigrant Quality: Evidence from 1970-1990
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2002
The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public policy concern. However, traditional methods of measuring human capital are particularly difficult to apply to recently arrived immigrants. Many factors that have a negative effect...
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