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Erratum : Does Education Improve Health? A Reexamination of the Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws
Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2010
In this brief note, I correct a few mistakes in Table 3 of "Does education improve health? A reexamination of the … with the conclusions of the paper which argued that previous research claiming to show a causal link between education and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014188771
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American education in the age of mass migrations 1870 - 1930
Murtin, Fabrice; Viarengo, Martina - 2009
This paper derives original series of average years of schooling in the United States 1870-1930, which take into account the impact of mass migrations on the US educational level. We reconstruct the foreign-born US population by age and by country of origin, while combining data on the flow of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269171
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American education in the age of mass migrations 1870 - 1930
Murtin, Fabrice; Viarengo, Martina - 2009
rules in the 1920s. -- Education ; migrations ; economic history ; economic development research …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003801059
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American Education in the Age of Mass Migrations 1870-1930
Murtin, Fabrice - 2009
This paper derives original series of average years of schooling in the United States 1870-1930, which take into account the impact of mass migrations on the US educational level. We reconstruct the foreign-born US population by age and by country of origin, while combining data on the flow of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765094
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The Earnings Effect of Education at Community Colleges
Marcotte, Dave E. - 2006
In this paper, I make use of data from the 2000 follow-up of the National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS) post …-secondary education transcript files to extend what is known about the value of education at community colleges. I examine the effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779229
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Further Estimates of the Economic Return to Schooling from a New Sample of Twins
Rouse, Cecilia E. - 1998
In a recent and widely cited paper, Ashenfelter and Krueger (1994) use a new sample of identical twins to test whether schooling represents an investment in human capital or is merely a proxy for genetic ability. I re-examine Ashenfelter and Krueger's estimates using three additional years of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014068923
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I know, therefore I am healthier? : the role of education in health-related behaviors
Escobar López, Daniela - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012195471
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Fertility effects of college education : evidence from the German educational expansion
Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Westphal, Matthias - 2019
Using arguably exogenous variation in college expansions we estimate the effects of college education on female … fertility. While college education reduces the probability of becoming a mother, college-educated mothers have more children … than mothers without a college education. Lower child–income penalties of college-educated mothers of two relative to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052745
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Schooling opportunities and intergenerational educational mobility in Turkey : an IV estimation using census data
Akarçay-Gürbüz, Ayça; Polat, Sezgin - In: The journal of development studies : JDS 53 (2017) 9, pp. 1396-1413
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011790190
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Heterogeneous returns to training an analysis with German data using local instrumental variables
Kuckulenz, Anja (contributor); Maier, Michael (contributor) - 2006
Empirical work on the wage impact of training has noted that unobserved heterogeneity of training participants should play a role. The expected return to training, which partly depends on unobservable characteristics, is likely to be a crucial criterion in the decision to take part in training...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003268906