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Health disparities across education : the role of differential reporting error
Cawley, John H.; Choi, Anna - 2015
. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES … stigmatized ones like smoking and obesity. Differential reporting error across education leads to underestimates of the true …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288528
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Childhood roots of financial literacy
Grohmann, Antonia; Kouwenberg, Roy; Menkhoff, Lukas - 2015
Financial literacy predicts informed financial decisions, but what explains financial literacy? We use the concept of financial socialization and aim to represent three major agents of financial socialization: family, school and work. Thus we compile twelve relevant childhood characteristics in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334469
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Technology adoption in education : usage, spillovers and student achievement
Bergman, Peter - 2016
Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541111
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Education, dynamic signaling and social distance
Gallice, Andrea - 2007
The paper enriches a standard signaling model of education with issues of social distance defined over educational … growing average level of schooling. As education rises, signals get noisy and potentially harmful for what concerns firms … these dynamics are in line with recent trends and other stylized facts about education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010439355
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The consequences of being different : statistical discrimination and the school-to-work transition
Müller, Barbara; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2011
When information about the true abilities of job-seekers and applicants are hard to get, statistical discrimination by employers can be an efficient strategy in the hiring and wage setting process. But statistical discrimination can induce costs, if labor relations cannot be terminated in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009010171
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Labor demand shocks at birth and cognitive achievement during childhood
Regmi, Krishna; Henderson, Daniel J. - 2019
As epidemiological studies have shown that conditions during gestation and early childhood affect adult health outcomes, we examine the effect of local labor market conditions in the year of birth on cognitive development in childhood. To address the endogeneity of labor market conditions, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059697
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Economic uncertainty, parental selection, and children's educational outcomes
Chevalier, Arnaud; Marie, Olivier - 2015
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by economic uncertainty. Using various educational measures, we show that the children born during this nativity slump perform worse from an early age onwards. Consistent with negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513403
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771160
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Education and lifetime income during demographic transition
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2013
introduced in 2011. Additional investments into secondary education will, as a rule, not cause life time income to raise enough … to compensate its costs. -- Early education ; demographic change ; inequality over the life span ; redistributive policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009732726
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Schooling and voter turnout is there an American exception?
Chevalier, Arnaud; Doyle, Orla - 2012
One of the most consistent findings in studies of electoral behaviour is that individuals with higher education have a … relationship between education and voter turnout. Moreover country-specific institutional and economic factors do not explain the … of education on voter turnout, such that the education gradient in voting is greater in U.S. States with the harshest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009733089