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Access to college and heterogeneous returns to education in China

Wang, Xiaojun; Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Li, Shi - In: Economics of Education Review 42 (2014) C, pp. 78-92

that labor and education reform without concomitant capital market reform and government support for the financially …

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Graduate competencies and employability: The impact of matching firms’ needs and personal attainments

Teijeiro, Mercedes; Rungo, Paolo; Freire, Mª Jesús - In: Economics of Education Review 34 (2013) C, pp. 286-295

competencies related to capacities and graduate education. This paper clearly points to the fact that universities must change …

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The externalities of crime: The effect of criminal involvement of parents on the educational attainment of their children

Rud, Iryna; Van Klaveren, Chris; Groot, Wim; Maassen … - In: Economics of Education Review 38 (2014) C, pp. 89-103

The empirical literature on education and crime suggests that both criminal behavior and educational attainment are … finishing primary education as the highest education level attained (7–9 percentage points), and (2) decreases the probability … of attaining higher education (2–6 percentage points). These results are robust to various specifications and are …

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Is it ever too late to study? The economic returns on late tertiary degrees in Sweden

Hällsten, Martin - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 1, pp. 179-194

-secondary schooling in light of current ideas on lifelong learning. Sweden is a case in point: Swedish tertiary education is open to older …

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The impact of surplus skills on earnings: Extending the over-education model to language proficiency

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - In: Economics of Education Review 36 (2013) C, pp. 263-275

English requirements using the over-education, required education, under-education (ORU) approach. The analyses show that …

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Responses of private and public schools to voucher funding

Filer, Randall K.; Münich, Daniel - In: Economics of Education Review 34 (2013) C, pp. 269-285

universal education vouchers. Private schools appear to have arisen in response to distinct market incentives. They are more …

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The returns to education for opportunity entrepreneurs, necessity entrepreneurs, and paid employees

Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias J.M. - In: Economics of Education Review 37 (2013) C, pp. 66-84

We assess the relevance of formal education on the productivity of the self-employed, distinguishing between … employment options. We expect differences in the returns to education between these groups due to different levels of control … of education and non-random selection. Results indicate that the returns to a year of education for opportunity …

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Grossman’s missing health threshold

Galama, Titus; Kapteyn, Arie - In: Journal of Health Economics 30 (2011) 5, pp. 1044-1056

We present a generalized solution to Grossman’s model of health capital (1972), relaxing the widely used assumption that individuals can adjust their health stock instantaneously to an “optimal” level without adjustment costs. The Grossman model then predicts the existence of a health...

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Conditional corruption

Dong, Bin; Dulleck, Uwe; Torgler, Benno - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 3, pp. 609-627

In this paper we discuss whether corruption is contagious and whether conditional cooperation matters. We use the notion of “conditional corruption” for these effects. We analyze whether the justifiability to be corrupt is influenced by the perceived activities of others. Moreover, we also...

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Heterogeneous self-employment and satisfaction in Latin America

Aguilar, Alexandra Cortés; García Muñoz, Teresa M.; … - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 39 (2013) C, pp. 44-61

This paper analyzes the relationship between labor status and individual satisfaction in Latin America. Existing evidence for developed countries shows that the self-employed report higher job satisfaction than the employed. The evidence, however, is less conclusive in terms of...

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