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The Educational Bias in Commuting Patterns: Micro-Evidence for the Netherlands
Groot, Stefan P.T.; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Veneri, Paolo - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
This study analyses the relation between education and commuting behaviour of Dutch workers. Results show that, ceteris …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257066
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Education and Health: The Role of Cognitive Ability
Bijwaard, Govert; Kippersluis, Hans van; Veenman, Justus - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality …-2011, such that we observe mortality between ages 55 and 75. The results suggest that the treatment effect of education(i.e. the … effect of entering secondary school as opposed to leaving school after primary education) is positive and amounts to a 4 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257088
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The Stature of the Self-employed and its Premium
Rietveld, Cornelius A.; Hessels, Jolanda; Zwan, Peter … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
whereas the height premium in work and life satisfaction is only marginally explained by education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257122
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Long Run Returns to Education: Does Schooling Lead to an Extended Old Age?
Kippersluis, Hans van; O'Donnell, Owen; Doorslaer, Eddy van - Tinbergen Instituut
> While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on … to linked data from health surveys, tax files and the mortality register to estimate the causal effect of education on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257363
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Birth Order, Family Size and Educational Attainment
Haan, Monique de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
, by examining the relation with years of education for different family sizes separately; this avoids the problem that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257373
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A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health over the Life Cycle
Galama, Titus J.; Kippersluis, Hans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257432
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The Effect of Parents' Schooling on Child's Schooling: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis
Haan, Monique de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
This discussion paper led to a publication in <A href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/full/10.1086/660798">'The Journal of Labor Economics'</A>, 29(4), 859-92.<p>This paper uses a relatively new approach to investigate the effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling; a nonparametric bounds analysis based on Manski and Pepper (2000), using the most recent...</p></a>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257435
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Thought for Food: Understanding Educational Disparities in Food Consumption
Koç, Hale; Kippersluis, Hans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015
the education disparity in diet. However, when faced with the most explicit health information regarding diet, lower … theoretical prediction that part of the education differences across health behaviours is driven by the "marginal value of health …" rising with education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257451
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Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous and do Family Background Variables make Sense as Instruments? A Bayesian Analysis
Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
See also 'Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous?' in <I>Entrepreneurship Research Journal</I> (2012), 2 …(3), 1-27.<P> Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however … (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental variables can provide a way out. However, three questions remain: whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257490
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How Risky is Investment in Human Capital?
Hartog, Joop; Ophem, Hans van; Bajdechi, Simona Maria - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
skewed. Our best guess of ex ante risk in university education is a coefficient ofvariation of about 0.3, comparable to that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257594