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Assortative mating on education : a genetic assessment

Barban, Nicola; De Cao, Elisabetta; Oreffice, Sonia; … - 2019

We investigate assortative mating on education using a sample of couples from the Health and Retirement Study. We estimate a reduced-form linear matching function, which links wife's education to husband's education and both wife's and husband's unobservable characteristics. Using OLS we find...

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Subjective Inflation Expectations of Households

Weber, Michael - 2023

Inflation expectations of households and firms are central determinants in all dynamic macro models. Yet, empirical evidence suggests these decision makers form expectations in a way that deviates from the assumptions in these models: on average, inflation expectations are biased upwards, are...

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Marital Fertility and Religion : Recent Changes in Spain

Adserà, Alícia - 2004

Since the onset of democracy in 1975, both total fertility and Mass attendance rates in Spain have dropped dramatically. I use the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys to study whether the significance of religion in fertility behavior - both in family size and in the spacing of births - has...

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Maternal life satisfaction and child outcomes : are they related?

Berger, Eva M.; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2009

three-year-old children as well as the socio-emotional behavior of five- to six-year-old children. We use data from the … mothers' personality or mothers' cognitive skills are controlled for. …

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Can subjective expectations data be used in choice models? : evidence on cognitive biases

Zafar, Basit - 2010

A pervasive concern with the use of subjective data in choice models is that the data are biased and endogenous. This paper examines the extent to which cognitive biases plague subjective data, specifically addressing 1) whether cognitive dissonance affects the reporting of beliefs, and 2)...

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The heterogeneous impacts of business cycles on educational attainment

Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest - 2016

In this study I examine the impact of fluctuations in the unemployment rate before high school graduation on educational attainment measured 30 years later. I find evidence that educational attainment is countercyclical, as found in other studies, but also find that the impact of the...

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Dynamic Skill Accumulation, Education Policies and the Return to Schooling

Belzil, Christian - 2017

Using a dynamic skill accumulation model of schooling and labor supply with learning-by-doing, we decompose early life-cycle wage growth of U.S. white males into four main sources: education, hours worked, cognitive skills (AFQT scores) and unobserved heterogeneity, and evaluate the effect of...

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Intergenerational Mobility and Schooling Decisions in Germany and Italy : The Impact of Secondary School Tracks

Checchi, Daniele; Flabbi, Luca - 2021

Intergenerational mobility in income and education is affected by the influence of parents on children's school choices …. Our focus is on the role played by different school systems in reducing or magnifying the impact of parents on children … on children choices. Using data from a cross-country survey (PISA 2003), we study the impact of parental education on …

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Dynamic skill accumulation, education policies and the return to schooling

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2017

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How does for-profit college attendance affect student loans, defaults, and earnings?

Armona, Luis; Chakrabarti, Rajashri; Lovenheim, Michael F. - 2017

For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of U.S. higher education markets. Students who attend for-profit institutions take on more educational debt, have worse labor market outcomes, and are more likely to default than students attending similarly selective public...

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