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Education and happiness : an alternative hypothesis
Nikolaev, Boris; Rusakov, Pavel - In: Applied economics letters 23 (2016) 10/12, pp. 827-830
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Aggregate unemployment decreases individual returns to education
Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor);  … - 2006
education. We therefore include aggregate unemployment and an interaction term between unemployment and the individual education … to education by 0.005 percentage points. This implies that higher skilled employees are better sheltered from labour … regional unemployment can in addition almost fully explain the observed large differences in regional returns to education. We …
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Age-dependent skill formation and returns to education
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (contributor);  … - 2007
In this study, we try to connect the economic literature on human capital formation with findings from neurobiology and psychology on early childhood development and self-regulation. Our basic framework for assessing the distribution of agespecific returns to investment in skills is an...
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Family background variables as instruments for education in income regressions : a Bayesian analysis
Hoogerheide, Lennart; Block, Jörn; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: July 2010
The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In … violations of the strong validity assumption affect the estimation results. We show that, in case of moderate direct effects of … (perfect validity of the instrument). The size of the bias is in many cases smaller than the standard error of education …
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Young FSU migrants in Germany : educational attainment and early labor market outcomes
Flake, Regina - 2013
This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational attainments than natives, and that within the group of...
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Exploring wage determination by education level : a U.S. metropolitan statistical area analysis from 2005 to 2012
Prime, Penelope B.; Grimes, Donald R.; Walker, Mary Beth - In: Economic development quarterly : the journal of … 30 (2016) 3, pp. 191-202
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Age-dependent human capital investments and socio-economic outcomes
Reuß, Karsten - 2011
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Returns to education : the causal effects of education on earnings, health and smoking
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Veramendi, Gregory - 2016
This paper estimates returns to education using a dynamic model of educational choice that synthesizes approaches in … differentials. For some, there are substantial causal effects of education at all stages of schooling. …
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Estimating the returns to education using the newest current population survey education questions
Jaeger, David A. - 2002
This paper examines the 1997 additions to the Current Population Survey education question. These new questions allow … imputed "highest grade completed" is one-tenth grade greater and the estimated return to education .6 to 1 percentage points …
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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...
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