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Causal effects of educational mismatch in the labor market : conference paper

Kleibrink, Jan - 2013

This paper analyses the causal effects of educational mismatch on wages, individual health and job satisfaction. As educational mismatch is subject to unobserved heterogeneity in all of these fields, different identification strategies are applied to derive causal effects. In the wage...

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Jailer of freedom and enemy of growth? : the role of personal and social identities in educational choices

Autiero, Giuseppina; O'Higgins, Shane Niall - 2013

This paper develops a theoretical and empirical model on the influence of identity on educational choices which extends the existing literature in several directions. The theoretical model proposed here allows schooling choices to be independently influenced by both personal and social...

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Chapter 10 Education and Nonmarket Outcomes

Grossman, Michael - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 1, (pp. 577-633). 2006

This chapter explores the effects of education on nonmarket outcomes from both theoretical and empirical perspectives …-being reflected by their health and cognitive development. They are distinguished from the labor market outcomes of education in terms … of higher earnings and wage rates. The focus is on identifying causal effects of education and on mechanisms via which …

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A theory of socioeconomic disparities in health over the life cycle

Galama, Titus J.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2010

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...

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Family shocks and academic achievement

Hull, Marie - 2015

Disruptions in family life can take many forms, but all have the potential to impact student learning. With school administrative data matched to birth records, I estimate the effect of unexpected changes in the home environment, or family shocks, on achievement. Identification comes from...

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Education transmission and network formation

Boucher, Vincent; Del Bello, Carlo Leone; Panebianco, … - 2021

We propose a model of intergenerational transmission of education wherein children belong to either highly educated or … interactions with other low-educated students (i.e., homophily), which reduces the education effort of their parents and, thus … kids from different education backgrounds can be effective in reducing the education gap between them. …

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A Theory of Education and Health

Galama, Titus J.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2015

understanding the complex relationship between education and health, and generates several new testable predictions …

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A Theory of Education and Health

Galama, Titus J.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2015

understanding the complex relationship between education and health, and generates several new testable predictions …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014137437

Exploring innovative methods among students about the concept of sustainability

Coca, Laura-Crina; Pislaru, Marius - In: Proceedings of the ENTRENOVA - ENTerprise REsearch … 9 (2023) 1, pp. 123-131

The education of young people regarding the concept of sustainability, regardless of the field, has become an essential …

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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...

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