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The health influence on returns to education in Brazil : a nonlinear approach
Russo, Letícia Xander; Dias, Joilson - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 17 (2016) 2, pp. 210-220
This paper investigates the returns to education in terms of individuals' health in Brazil. We use the Heckman … microdata from National Survey by Household Sample for 2003 and 2008. The health status is measured by self-assessment of … is lower for individuals in poor health; for people with 15 or more years of schooling, the rate of return is 10 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011865699
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Do occupational demands explain the educational gradient in health?
Meyer, Sophie-Charlotte; Künn-Nelen, Annemarie - 2014
education and health. We concentrate on ergonomic, environmental, psychical, social and time demands. Merging the German … dataset to analyze the mediating role of occupational demands in the relationship between education and health status on the … one hand and education and health behavior (BMI and smoking) on the other. We base our analyses on the entire working …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252607
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Do Occupational Demands Explain the Educational Gradient in Health?
Meyer, Sophie-Charlotte; Künn-Nelen, Annemarie - 2014
education and health. We concentrate on ergonomic, environmental, psychical, social and time demands. Merging the German … dataset to analyze the mediating role of occupational demands in the relationship between education and health status on the … one hand and education and health behavior (BMI and smoking) on the other. We base our analyses on the entire working …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333305
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A Dynamic Model of Health, Addiction, Education, and Wealth
Hai, Rong - 2019
This paper formulates and estimates a dynamic model of health, addiction, education, and wealth in order to understand … the well-established positive empirical relationship between education and health. In our model, agents make decisions on … cognitive and noncognitive skills and initial health and face endogenously-determined borrowing constraints. The consumption of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012903842
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Do Occupational Demands Explain the Educational Gradient in Health?
Meyer, Sophie-Charlotte - 2014
education and health. We concentrate on ergonomic, environmental, psychical, social and time demands. Merging the German … dataset to analyze the mediating role of occupational demands in the relationship between education and health status on the … one hand and education and health behavior (BMI and smoking) on the other. We base our analyses on the entire working …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057054
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Do Occupational Demands Explain the Educational Gradient in Health?
Meyer, Sophie-Charlotte; Künn-Nelen, Annemarie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
education and health. We concentrate on ergonomic, environmental, psychical, social and time demands. Merging the German … dataset to analyze the mediating role of occupational demands in the relationship between education and health status on the … one hand and education and health behavior (BMI and smoking) on the other. We base our analyses on the entire working …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010751647
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Do students expect compensation for wage risk?
Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2009
We use a unique data set about the wage distribution that Swiss students expect for themselves ex ante, deriving parametric and non-parametric measures to capture expected wage risk. These wage risk measures are unfettered by heterogeneity which handicapped the use of actual market wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003825129
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Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America : evidence from a supply-demand framework, 1990 - 2010
Gasparini, Leonardo; Galiani, Sebastián; Cruces, Guillermo - 2011
It has been argued that a factor behind the decline in income inequality in Latin America in the 2000s was the educational upgrading of its labor force. Between 1990 and 2010, the proportion of the labor force in the region with at least secondary education increased from 40 to 60 percent....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009524375
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The promises and pitfalls of universal early education : universal early education can be beneficial, and more so for the poor, but quality matters
Cascio, Elizabeth U. - 2015
There is widespread interest in universal early education, both to promote child development and to support maternal employment. Positive long-term findings from small-scale early education interventions for low-income children in the US have greatly influenced the public discussion. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011427696
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Do higher levels of education and skills in an area benefit wider society? : education benefits individuals, but the societal benefits are likely even greater
Winters, John V. - 2015
Formal schooling increases earnings and provides other individual benefits. However, societal benefits of education may exceed individual benefits. Research finds that increased average education levels in an area are correlated with higher earnings, even for locals with relatively little...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430542