Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 17,808
Cover Image
Long-Term Impact of Youth Minimum Wages : Evidence from Two Decades of Individual Longitudinal Data
Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2009
This paper quantifies the long-run impact of exposure to youth minimum wages and sheds light on its mechanisms. It uses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158663
Cover Image
Long-term effects of childhood nutrition : evidence from a school lunch reform
Alex-Petersen, Jesper; Lundborg, Petter; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2017
-term outcomes, including lifetime income, health, cognitive skills, and education. Our results show that the school lunch program … attainment and health and these effects can explain a large part of the return to school lunches. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776044
Cover Image
Education, Health and Mortality : Evidence from a Social Experiment
Meghir, Costas - 2012
We study the effect of a compulsory education reform in Sweden on adult health and mortality. The reform was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107708
Cover Image
Long-Term Effects of Childhood Nutrition : Evidence from a School Lunch Reform
Alex-Petersen, Jesper - 2018
-term outcomes, including lifetime income, health, cognitive skills, and education. Our results show that the school lunch program … attainment and health and these effects can explain a large part of the return to school lunches …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930927
Cover Image
The long-term effects of early sports selection
Mehic, Adrian - 2024 - This version: December 3, 2024
This paper examines the long-term effects of early sports selection using a regression discontinuity design. I show that Swedish track and field athletes who qualified for a one-time appearance with the junior national team at age 17 are less likely to quit sports and more likely to improve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015154727
Cover Image
Are returns to education on the decline in Venezuela and does mission sucre have a role to play?
Gonzales, Naihobe; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2009
There is anecdotal evidence that the standard of living for the educated has fallen in Venezuela over the last few years. This evidence comes as a surprise because after experiencing an economic downturn in 2002 and 2003, Venezuela's economy has boomed (gross domestic product growth has hovered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003859438
Cover Image
Conscription and educational outcomes : quasi-experimental evidence from the Republic of Cyprus
Savčić, Ružica; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos; Xefteris, … - 2020
Peacetime military service has both positive and negative effects on human capital. While it depreciates academic abilities it also enhances non-cognitive skills. The net effect of conscription is hard to identify due to issues of self-selection, endogenous timing and omitted variables bias. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262207
Cover Image
Beyond Covid : pandemics and the economics of aging and longevity
Strulik, Holger; Grossmann, Volker - 2024
socioeconomic disparities in health outcomes. We also explore the individual-specific effects of Long Covid. We develop and … calibrate a health economic model based on principles of the biology of human aging that captures the interaction between … infections and chronic health deficits. Our analysis suggests that neglecting this interaction leads to a gross underestimation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529184
Cover Image
Are returns to education on the decline in Venezuela and does mission sucre have a role to play?
Gonzales, Naihobe; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2009
There is anecdotal evidence that the standard of living for the educated has fallen in Venezuela over the last few years. This evidence comes as a surprise because after experiencing an economic downturn in 2002 and 2003, Venezuela's economy has boomed (gross domestic product growth has hovered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269036
Cover Image
The role of education in health system performance
Grignon, Michel - In: Economics of education review 27 (2008) 3, pp. 299-307
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003725757