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Life expectancy and parental education in Germany
Huebener, Mathias - 2019
This study analyses the relationship between life expectancy and parental education. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and survival analysis models, we show that maternal education is related to children's life expectancy - even after controlling for children's own level...
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Accounting for investment risk in educational decisions : new evidence for lifetime returns in Germany
Zühlke, Anne; Kugler, Philipp; Hackenberger, Armin; … - 2020
We analyse the economic returns in lifetime labour income of different educational paths in Germany, especially the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012209537
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Age-dependent skill formation and returns to education
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 15 (2008) 4, pp. 631-646
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003758395
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Age-dependent skill formation and returns to education
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (contributor);  … - 2007
In this study, we try to connect the economic literature on human capital formation with findings from neurobiology and psychology on early childhood development and self-regulation. Our basic framework for assessing the distribution of agespecific returns to investment in skills is an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003447754
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Studienfinanzierung durch Humankapitalverträge : eine Marktanalyse
Vietor, Marco - 2010 - 1. Aufl.
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Age-dependent skill formation and returns to education : simulation based evidence
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (contributor);  … - 2007
This study integrates findings from neurobiology and psychology on early childhood development and self-regulation to assess returns to education. Our framework for evaluating the distribution of age-specific returns to investments in cognitive and noncognitive skills is a lifecycle simulation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003609990
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Causal returns to schooling and individual heterogeneity
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Pohlmeier, Winfried - 2012
In this paper, human capital investments are evaluated by assuming heterogeneous returns to schooling. We use the potential outcome approach to measure the causal effect of human capital investments on earnings as a continuous treatment effect. Empirical evidence is based on a sample of West...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009545261
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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000
- Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325999
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Analyzing zero returns to education in Germany : heterogeneous effects and skill formation
Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2013
compulsory schooling on wages in Germany. We go beyond these studies and test a potential reason for it, namely that basic skills … are learned earlier in Germany and additional years of schooling are not effective anymore. This is done by also … have a causal effect on cognitive skills in Germany. This is consistent with the explanation for zero effects of schooling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010195541
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Analyzing zero returns to education in Germany : heterogeneous effects and skill formation
Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2013
compulsory schooling on wages in Germany. We go beyond these studies and test a potential reason for it, namely that basic skills … are learned earlier in Germany and additional years of schooling are not effective anymore. This is done by also … have a causal effect on cognitive skills in Germany. This is consistent with the explanation for zero effects of schooling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010197409