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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...
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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>
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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. …
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Education and Entrepreneurial Choice: An Instrumental Variables Analysis
Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
1, pages 23-33.<P> Education is argued to be an important driver of the decision to start a business. The measurement of … countries and the US. Theeffect of education on the decision to become self-employed is found to be strongly positive … education, the greater the likelihood that he/she starts a business.Implications for entrepreneurship research and practice are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257474
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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 …
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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 …
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Family Background Variables as Instruments for Education in Income Regressions: A Bayesian Analysis
Hoogerheide, Lennart; Block, Joern H.; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
This discussion paper was published in the <I> Economics of Education Review</I> (2012). Vol. 31(5), 515-523.<P> The … validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In this paper … of the instrument). The size of the bias is in many cases smaller than the standard error of education’s estimated …
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Child-rights & child development in India - a socio-economic analysis under regional perspective
Roy, Chandan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
child. By setting standards in health care; education; and legal, civil and social services, it tried to protect the basic …
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Foreign Direct Investment, Human Capital and Economic Growth in Malaysia
Hassan, Gulam; Aslam, Mohamed; Abou Sakar, Sameer - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
particularly beginning in 1971 moved to develop human capital stock by investing a large amount of public capital in the education …
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Burnout among para-teachers in India
Toppo, Mary Rajnee; Manjhi, Ganesh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
school on contractual basis. Government is silently promoting them as ‘Money Saving Approach’ in current education system …
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