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Education and entrepreneurial success
Kolstad, Ivar; Wiig, Arne - In: Small Business Economics 44 (2015) 4, pp. 783-796
This paper estimates the effect of education on the success of entrepreneurial activity, using survey data from Malawi …. An instrument variable approach is used to address the endogeneity of education. We find a significant and substantial … to succeed in business. Results are robust to non-random selection into entrepreneurship. Copyright Springer Science …
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Returns to education among entrepreneurs in Bangladesh
Kolstad, Ivar; Wiig, Arne; Moazzem, Khondaker Golam - In: Journal of Asian Economics 34 (2014) C, pp. 54-65
This article estimates returns to education among entrepreneurs in Bangladesh, using unique survey data from 2012. Our main instrument for education is the education of the father of the entrepreneur, and we control for sibling education in order to take out the potential effect of father...
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What are the Enduring Effects of Fertilizer Subsidy Programs on Recipient Farm Households? Evidence from Malawi
Ricker-Gilbert, Jacob; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2011
Replaced with revised version of paper 08/23/11.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216594
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Estimating the Return to Endogenous Schooling Decisions for Australian Workers via Conditional Second Moments
Klein, Roger; Vella, Francis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
find that accounting for the endogeneity of education in this manner increases the estimated return to education from 6 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822331
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The Long-Run Educational Cost of World War II: An Example of Local Average Treatment Effect Estimation
Ichino, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
An important component of the long-run cost of a war is the loss of human capital, suffered by children of schooling 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124013
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Selectivity and Heterogeneous Returns to Schooling in Italy: An Evaluation Based on Control Functions
Ghinetti, Paolo - In: Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación
first is the so-called ‘ability bias’, responsible for the ‘endogeneity’ of education in earnings equations. The second is … returns to schooling only if they are homogeneous in the population, but subject to endogeneity and the associated ‘ability …
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Changes in the returns to education in Argentina
Pietro, Giorgio Di; Pedace, Lucas - In: Journal of Applied Economics XI (2008) November, pp. 259-279
the endogeneity of education. The empirical results indicate that the returns to education have fluctuated over time. We …
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Education and Labour Market Outcomes in Sub-Saharan West Africa
Kuepie, Mathias; Nordman, Christophe; Roubaud, François - DIAL - 2006
convex returns to education in all the cities considered. Besides, not controlling for the endogeneity of education leads to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005416719
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Education and Labour Market Outcomes in Sub-Saharan West Africa
Kuépié, Mathias; Nordman, Christophe Jalil; Roubaud, … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2006
returns to education in all the cities considered. Besides, not controlling for the endogeneity of education leads to biased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010720288
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Identification of Causal Education Effects Using a Discontinuity in School Entry Tests: First Results from a Pilot Study
Boes, Stefan; Hangartner, Dominik; Schmid, Lukas - Department Volkswirtschaftlehre, Universität Bern - 2011
We use a credible regression discontinuity design to estimate causal education effects. Pupils in the Swiss education system had to pass a centrally organized exam that classified them into different levels of secondary school, and that ultimately determined their educational degree. A major...
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