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The effects of compulsory military service exemption on education and labor market outcomes : evidence from a natural experiment
Torun, Huzeyfe; Tumen, Semih - 2015
also find suggestive evidence that the paid exemption reform reduces the labor income for males in the target group. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309457
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The effects of compulsory military service exemption on education and labor market outcomes : evidence from a natural experiment
Torun, Huzeyfe; Tumen, Semih - 2016
also find suggestive evidence that the paid exemption reform reduces the labor income for males in the target group. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011494016
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The Importance of Cognitive Abilities at Primary School for Educational and Occupational Success in the Life Course of a Dutch Generation, born around 1940.
Dronkers, J. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
educational level. The same holds for income and early cognitive ability. Generally speaking differences in early cognitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552810
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Economic conditions at birth, birth weight, ability, and the causal path to cardiovascular mortality
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Modin, Bitte - 2013
We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010127786
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Childhood circumstances and young adult outcomes : the role of mothers' financial problems
Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Barazzetta, Marta - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011986432
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Chapter 6 Educational Wage Premiums and the U.S. Income Distribution: A Survey
Deere, Donald R.; Vesovic, Jelena - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 1, (pp. 255-306). 2006
This chapter discusses the large literature and numerous issues regarding education-related differences in income in …. Following the 1940 Decennial Census, which collected information on educational attainment and on earned income and time worked … 1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023737
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Charter schools and the segregation of students by income
Dalane, Kari; Marcotte, Dave E. - 2021
The segregation of students by socioeconomic status has been on the rise in American public education between schools during the past several decades. Recent work has demonstrated that segregation is also increasing within schools at the classroom level. In this paper, we contribute to our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012509177
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Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effectof Education and Personal Control on the RelativePerformance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees
Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
‘income’). This is the caseeven when estimating individual fixed effects of the differential returns to education for spellsin … instrumentalvariables to cope with the endogenous nature of education in income equations. Finally, wefind (indirect) support for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360612
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La Meglio Gioventù : earnings gaps across generations and skills in Italy
Naticchioni, Paolo; Raitano, Michele; Vittori, Claudia - 2014
This paper documents the evolution of the experience-earnings profiles of private employees in Italy over the first six years of working career across three birth cohorts (1965-1969, 1970- 1974, 1975-1979). We explore the average trends and disentangle how the patterns vary according to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350381
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Measuring Externalities in Program Evaluation
Janssens, Wendy - 2005
Impact evaluations of development programmes usually focus on a comparison of participants with a control group. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the programme’s impact. Based on a unique large-scale quantitative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325173