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Residential peer effects in higher education: does the field of study matter?
Brunello, Giorgio (contributor); De Paola, Maria (contributor) - 2008
Economists have a poor understanding of the mechanisms underlying reduced-form college peer effects. In this paper we explore a candidate mechanism, the provision of school effort. We show that, when earnings reflect individual educational performance as well as the field of study selected at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003672774
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Affordability of Medicines and Patients' Cost Reduction Behaviors : Empirical Evidence Based on Sur Estimates from Italy and the United Kingdom
Atella, Vincenzo; Noyce, Peter R.; Schafheutle, Ellen I; … - 2005
The aim of the paper is to shed some light on consumers' attitudes to adopting strategies to contain the cost of medication. Using micro-data from an ad hoc survey conducted in Italy and the UK, several hypotheses are tested regarding patients' decision-making behavior and how it is influenced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014067583
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Educational Outcomes, Gender and Body Weight : Evidence from Italy
Barone, Adriana - 2017
This study examines the relationship between body weight and academic performance, focusing on gender differences and using survey data from students at the University of Salerno in Italy. Our findings indicate a significant negative relationship between body weight and academic performance,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963817
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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000
We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325999
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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2021
We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321313
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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2000
We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262344
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Seasonality in smoking behaviour : re-evaluating the effects of the 2005 public smoking ban in Italy
Del Bono, Emilia; Grünberger, Klaus; Vuri, Daniela - 2013
This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy on January 2005 on … individual smoking behaviour. Current empirical evidence supports the existence of a negative effect of the Italian ban on … smoking prevalence and consumption in the general population. This is in contrast to what has been found in some other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010201685
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Seasonality in smoking behaviour : re-evaluating the effects of the 2005 public smoking ban in Italy
Del Bono, Emilia; Grünberger, Klaus; Vuri, Daniela - 2014
This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy on January 2005 on … individual smoking behaviour. Current empirical evidence supports the existence of a negative effect of the Italian ban on … smoking prevalence and consumption in the general population. This is in contrast to what has been found in some other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010436572
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Class size and class heterogeneity
De Giorgi, Giacomo; Pellizzari, Michele; Woolston, … - 2009
We study how class size and composition affect the academic and labor market performances of college students, two crucial policy questions given the secular increase in college enrollment. We rely on the random assignment of students to teaching classes. Our results suggest that a one standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900584
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Class size and class heterogeneity
De Giorgi, Giacomo; Pellizzari, Michele; Woolston, … - 2010
"We study how class size and class composition affect the academic and labor market performance of college students, two crucial policy questions given the secular increase in college enrollment. Our identification strategy relies on the random assignment of students to teaching classes. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008669357