Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 77,771
Cover Image
The Long-Run Labour Market Consequences of Teenage Motherhood in Britain
Chevalier, Arnaud; Viitanen, Tarja K. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002
Common wisdom states that teenage childbearing reduces schooling, labour market experience and adult wages. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016647
Cover Image
The long-run labour market consequences of teenage motherhood in Britain
Chevalier, Arnaud; Viitanen, Tarja K. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
Common wisdom states that teenage childbearing reduces schooling, labour market experience and adult wages. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745202
Cover Image
The long-run labour market consequences of teenage motherhood in Britain
Chevalier, Arnaud; Viitanen, Tarja K.; Viitanen, Tarja K. - In: Journal of Population Economics 16 (2003) 2, pp. 323-343
Common wisdom states that teenage childbearing reduces schooling, labour market experience and adult wages. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622257
Cover Image
Universal Early Childhood Education and Adolescent Risky Behavior
Ando, Michihito; Mori, Hiroaki; Yamaguchi, Shintaro - 2022
The evidence for the effects of early childhood education on risky behavior in adolescence is limited. This paper studies the consequences of a reform of a large-scale universal kindergarten program in Japan. Exploiting a staggered expansion of kindergartens across regions, we estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533127
Cover Image
Access to Education and Teenage Pregnancy
Koppensteiner, Martin Foureaux; Matheson, Jesse - 2016
Little is known about the causal impact of education opportunities on the decision of young women to have children. Expanding education opportunities may lead to a greater number of young women putting off childbearing until after their teenage years. In this study we look at the effect of one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014000553
Cover Image
Universal early childhood education and adolescent risky behavior
Ando, Michihito; Mori, Hiroaki; Yamaguchi, Shintarō - 2022
The evidence for the effects of early childhood education on risky behavior in adolescence is limited. This paper studies the consequences of a reform of a large-scale universal kindergarten program in Japan. Exploiting a staggered expansion of kindergartens across regions, we estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013367278
Cover Image
Youth Risk-Taking Behavior in Brazil: Drug Use and Teenage Pregnancies
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Verner, Dorte - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Using an extensive survey addressing risk factors faced by the population in the shantytowns of Fortaleza, Brazil, the aim of this paper is to study interactions among different types of risktaking behavior by youth, namely drug use and teenage pregnancy. We check the impact of factors such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763684
Cover Image
Rates of return to education : the view of students in Switzerland
Wolter, Stefan C.; Zbinden, André - 2001
. Its main findings are that point estimates of wages after graduation are close to actual wages, whereas the expectations … of the deviation of individual expectations from actual wages can not be explained, we find that rates of return to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403862
Cover Image
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
1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital … estimating the returns to education and experience. Recent analyses of education and wages have built on this foundation and have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023737
Cover Image
In vino pecunia? : the association between beverage-specific drinking behavior and wages
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2008
The positive association between moderate alcohol consumption and wages is well documented in the economic literature …-specific drinking behavior and wages. In our analysis, we disentangle the general wage effect of drinking into diverse effects for … different types of drinkers. Mincerian estimates reveal significant and positive relationships between wine drinkers and wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631967