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This study analyzes the impact of entrepreneurship education at universities on the intentions of students to become … effect of entrepreneurship education on students' intentions to become entrepreneurs or self-employed in the long-term but a … discouraging effect on their intentions in the short-term. These results support the conjecture that entrepreneurship education …
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The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational inequalities in cancer survival. We investigate to what...
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This paper studies oligopolistic competition in education markets when schools can be private and public and when the … quality of education depends on peer group effects. In the first stage of our game schools set their quality and in the second … as regulatory tool in an otherwise private education sector. …
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two separate margins of primary/secondary and tertiary education. Interestingly, the latter type of schooling proves to be …
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One of the most consistent findings in studies of electoral behaviour is that individuals with higher education have a … relationship between education and voter turnout. Moreover country-specific institutional and economic factors do not explain the … of education on voter turnout, such that the education gradient in voting is greater in U.S. States with the harshest …
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correlation between general education and productivity of medical care. This paper focuses on the individual investments of laymen … in specific medical education as a decision problem in which the ex-post strategies of the individual are consultation … necessary conditions for investments in education is undertaken. …
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education levels today, particularly among the female. Despite lower education, there is no evidence for adverse labour market …
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be led back to the intrinsic motivation of Protestants to read the bible and whether other education motives were … hypothesis. However, Protestants' education motives went beyond acquiring reading skills. …
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. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES … stigmatized ones like smoking and obesity. Differential reporting error across education leads to underestimates of the true …
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Financial literacy predicts informed financial decisions, but what explains financial literacy? We use the concept of financial socialization and aim to represent three major agents of financial socialization: family, school and work. Thus we compile twelve relevant childhood characteristics in...
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