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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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We test potential social costs of educational inequality by analysing the influence of spatial and social segregation on educational achievements. In particular, based on recent PISA data sets from the UK and Germany, we investigate whether good neighbourhoods with a relatively high stock of...
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states. This creates exogenous variation in the availability of higher education, which allows estimating the causal effect … of education on health behaviors. Using the number of academic track schools in a state as an instrumental variable for … such as obesity. We find large negative effects of education on smoking. These effects can mostly be attributed to …
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respect to education and church attendance. Gary Becker's theory of marriage predicts that usually, positive assortative … education and religiousness. …
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This paper estimates the causal effect of an additional year of parents' schooling on theirchildren's education … schooling women strongly affects their sons' education. Based on severaldatasets, numerous channels that might mediate the …
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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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paradata. Fraction answered captures a third of the effect of cognitive ability on wages and education. We provide a simple …
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While an increasing number of conceptual studies postulate that vocational education and training (VET) activities have …
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Evidence-based education policy needs comprehensive data. Education economists of the Verein für Socialpolitik call for … the implementation of a longitudinal education register in Germany to understand the complex interrelationships of … education systems. The education register should cover all levels of formal education and include data on student performance in …
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data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education but not income or urbanization is negatively …
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