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Determining Demand for University Education in Ontario by Type of Student

Mueller, Richard; Rockerbie, Duane W. - 2013

We specify and estimate a demand equation for university education in Canada that is a function of tuition fees, real … system. We also disaggregate demand into demographic components: male and female, secondary school applicants and ‘‘other … demand. Our results suggest that the demand functions differ across the demographic characteristics in sensible ways. Broadly …

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Climate Change Information and Media: A Study Among Youth in India

Neelima, B. N. - In: International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP) 9 (2018) 1, pp. 1-14

Climate change is a scientific, health, political, economic, national security, environmental, moral and religious issue, among many others. The article presents the findings of a study which investigates what messages and messengers best engage young people with climate science and its...

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Gender Gaps in the Effects of Childhood Family Environment: Do They Persist into Adulthood?

Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Lundberg, Shelly - 2016

We examine the differential effects of family disadvantage on the education and adult labor market outcomes of men and women using high-quality administrative data on the entire population of Denmark born between 1966 and 1995. We link parental education and family structure during childhood to...

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The Effects of Education on Health: An Intergenerational Perspective

Huebener, Mathias - 2018

This paper presents evidence of substantial causal effects of parental education on children's health behaviours and long-term health. We study intergenerational effects of a compulsory schooling increase in Germany after World War II, which was implemented across federal states at different...

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Parental Background and Earnings: German Evidence on Direct and Indirect Relationships

Cornelissen, Thomas; Jirjahn, Uwe; Tsertsvadze, Georgi - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 228 (2008) 5-6, pp. 554-572

Summary Using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP), the study analyzes the direct and indirect effects of parental background on employees' earnings. To examine indirect effects we estimate the determinants of the employees' years of schooling. In a second step, we run wage...

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The impact of parental education on earnings: new wine in an old bottle?

Hudson, John; Sessions, John G. - 2009

We examine the impact of parental education on the shape of an individual's experience-earnings profile. A number of factors suggest that parental education will affect the ability of an individual to translate labor market experience into earnings. Our empirical analysis of US data suggests...

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The determinants of university participation in Canada (1977 - 2003)

Christofides, Louis N.; Hoy, Michael; Yang, Ling - 2008

The decision to attend university is influenced by the balance of the expected returns and costs of attending university, by liquidity constraints and capital market imperfections that may modify these calculations and, hence, by the family income of prospective students. Family circumstances...

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Parental education and wages: evidence from China

Chen, Yuanyuan; Feng, Shuaizhang - 2009

Using nationally representative data in China, we find substantial positive partial correlations of both parents' education with one's wage. In addition, returns to father's education are higher in more monopsonistic and less meritocratic labor markets, including non-coastal regions, the...

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Critical periods during childhood and adolescence: A study of adult height among immigrant siblings

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lundborg, Petter; Nystedt, Paul; … - 2011

We identify the ages that constitute critical periods in children's development towards their adult health status. For this we use data on families migrating into Sweden from countries that are poorer, with less healthy conditions. Long-run health is proxied by adult height. The relation between...

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Critical periods during childhood and adolescence: a study of adult height among immigrant siblings

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lundborg, Petter; Nystedt, Paul; … - 2009

We identify the ages that constitute critical periods in children's development towards their adult health status. For this we use data on families migrating into Sweden from countries that are mostly poorer, with less healthy conditions. Long-run health is proxied by adult height. The relation...

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