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A U.S. Analysis of the Macro- and Micro-Economics of Family Formation: Marrying in the Great Recession and Prior Post-Industrial Recessions
Espinoza, C. Soledad - 2014
, education, and earnings life histories merged from the SIPP survey and federal administrative sources. Using ordinary logit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010426988
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Effects of entrepreneurship education at universities
Slavtchev, Viktor; Laspita, Stavroula; Patzelt, Holger - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291811
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Peer effects, social multipliers and migrants at school: An international comparison
Entorf, Horst; Lauk, Martina - 2006
This article analyses the school performance of migrants dependent on peer groups in different international schooling environments. Using data from the international OECD PISA test, we consider social interaction within and between groups of natives and migrants. Results based on social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291872
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Trade, education, and the shrinking middle class
Blanchard, Emily; Willmann, Gerald - 2013
liberalization. Comparing trade and education policy, we find that targeted education subsidies are more effective than tariffs as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291881
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Acess to treatment and educational inequalities in cancer survival
Fiva, Jon H.; Haegeland, Torbjørn; Rønning, Marte; … - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291889
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Efficiency and economies of scale in academic knowledge production
Felderer, Bernhard; Obersteiner, Michael - 1999
This paper investigates the properties of knowledge production in academic research using a panel of 17 OECD countries reaching from 1989 to 1996. The production process is modelled using capital and labour as inputs and the number of published international journal articles and/or the number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291910
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Math or science? Using longitudinal expectations data to examine the process of choosing a college major
Stinebrickner, Todd R.; Stinebrickner, Ralph - 2011
Due primarily to the difficulty of obtaining ideal data, much remains unknown about how college majors are determined. We take advantage of longitudinal expectations data from the Berea Panel Study to provide new evidence about this issue, paying particular attention to the choice of whether to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291963
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A new and easy-to-use measure of literacy, its axiomatic properties and an application
Basu, Kaushik; Lee, Travis - 2008
It can be argued that just as there are different kinds of literacy, there are different kinds of illiteracy. A proximate illiterate, i.e. an illiterate who has easy access to a literate person, is clearly better off than someone without such access. The existing literature that takes account of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292065
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Literacy traps: Society-wide education and individual skill premia
Atal, Vidya; Basu, Kaushik; Gray, John; Lee, Travis - 2009
Using a model of O-ring production function, the paper demonstrates how certain communities can get caught in a low-literacy trap in which each individual finds it not worthwhile investing in higher skills because others are not high-skilled. The model sheds light on educational policy. It is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292080
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Asymmetric labor force participation decisions over the business cycle: Evidence from US microdata
Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Robertson, John C. - 2006
asymmetry and sensitivity of labor force participation decisions are found across gender, age, and education groups, and these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292322