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Income Inequality and Education Revisited : Persistence, Endogeneity, and Heterogeneity
Coady, David P. - 2017
This paper presents new results on the relationship between income inequality and education expansion-that is, increasing average years of schooling and reducing inequality of schooling. When dynamic panel estimation techniques are used to address issues of persistence and endogeneity, we find a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950424
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Mortality and Socio-Economic Differences in a Competing Risks Model
Munch, Jakob Roland; Svarer, Michael - 2008
This paper presents evidence on how mortality in Denmark is related to different socio-economic indicators. By use of … unique and extensive sample of the Danish population, we examine how mortality is related to factors such as education … the cause-specific mortality rates. Particularly, we find that the often found inverse correlation between socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014137094
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Nonparametric tests of conditional treatment effects with an application to single-sex schooling on academic achievements
Chang, Minsu; Lee, Sokbae; Whang, Yoon-jae - In: The econometrics journal 18 (2015) 3, pp. 307-346
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Identification of treatment effects under imperfect matching with an application to Chinese elite schools
Zhang, Hongliang - In: Journal of public economics 142 (2016), pp. 56-82
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011654554
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Implementation matters : generalising treatment effects in education
Angrist, Noam; Meager, Rachael - 2023 - Version: June 15, 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014314211
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A theory of socioeconomic disparities in health over the life cycle
Galama, Titus J.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2010
are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381036
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A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health over the Life Cycle
Galama, Titus J.; van Kippersluis, Hans - 2010
are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325639
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Hyperbolic Discounting Can Be Good for Your Health
Strulik, Holger - 2018
It has been argued that hyperbolic discounting of future gains and losses leads to time-inconsistent behavior and thereby, in the context of health economics, not enough investment in health and too much indulgence of unhealthy consumption. Here, we challenge this view. We set up a life-cycle...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929204
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Human-Capital Formation : The Importance of Endogenous Longevity
Galama, Titus J.; van Kippersluis, Hans - 2022
We present a theory of human capital, with its two most essential components, health capital and, what we term, skill capital, endogenously determined within the model. Using the theory, and a calibrated version of it, we uncover and highlight an important economic mechanism driving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013290845
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Human-Capital Formation : The Importance of Endogenous Longevity
Galama, Titus J.; van Kippersluis, Hans - 2022
We present a theory of human capital, with its two most essential components, health capital and, what we term, skill capital, endogenously determined within the model. Using the theory, and a calibrated version of it, we uncover and highlight an important economic mechanism driving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013291712