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School curricula, educational trajectories, and labor market outcomes
Arold, Benjamin W. - 2022
Benjamin W. Arold prepared this study while he was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in March 2022 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the LMU Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that...
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Microeconometric analysis of individual and institutional determinants of education and occupational choice
Obergruber, Natalie - 2018
This study analyses which individual and institutional factors (causally) influence individuals in their educational career and in their choice for an occupation. Chapter 2 explores consequences of parental separation for cognitive skill development of children. In the year before parental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011918288
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Spillovers in education choice
Joensen, Juanna Schrøter; Nielsen, Helena Skyt - 2017
This paper examines how skills are shaped by social interactions in families. We show that older siblings causally affect younger sibling's education choices and early career earnings. We focus on critical course choices in high school and overcome the identification challenges of estimating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761898
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Schooling and the Formation of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Outcomes
Lüdemann, Elke - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …
This study was prepared by Elke Lüdemann while she was working in the Department Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute. It was completed in July 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich (LMU). The subject of this study is a micro...
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Walking in your footsteps : Sibling spillovers in higher education choices
Aguirre, Josefa; Matta, Juan - In: Economics of education review 80 (2021), pp. 1-28
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Walking in Your Footsteps : Sibling Spillovers in Higher Education Choices
Aguirre, Josefa - 2018
in shaping higher education choices. We exploit discontinuous admission rules generated by Chile's centralized system of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910488
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Sibling Spillover Effects in School Achievement
Nicoletti, Cheti - 2014
spillover effect that is net of unobserved child, family and school characteristics shared by siblings. We find a modest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043652
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Intergenerational and sibling spillovers in high school majors
Dahl, Gordon B.; Rooth, Dan-Olof; Stenberg, Anders - 2023
This paper estimates family spillovers in high school major choice in Sweden, where admission to oversubscribed majors …-dominated program of Engineering. Back of the envelope calculations reveal these within family spillovers have sizable implications for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013545875
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Intergenerational and Sibling Spillovers in High School Majors
Dahl, Gordon B.; Rooth, Dan-Olof; Stenberg, Anders - 2023
This paper estimates family spillovers in high school major choice in Sweden, where admission to oversubscribed majors …-dominated program of Engineering. Back of the envelope calculations reveal these within family spillovers have sizable implications for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014255660
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Family Structure and Child Outcomes in the United States and Sweden
Bjorklund, Anders; Ginther, Donna K.; Sundstrom, Marianne - 2021
children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family … United States and Sweden is interesting because both family structure and public policy environments in the two countries … differ significantly. Family structure could potentially have a less negative effect in Sweden than in the United States …
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