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Does higher education reduce body weight? Evidence using a reform of the student grant scheme

Greve, Jane; Weatherall, Cecilie D - Rockwool Fondens Forskningsenhed (RFF) - 2013

education and body weight by studying the effect of higher education on body weight according to subgroups of parental income …-weighted. However, we find suggestive evidence that the effect differs by income background. Amongst men who grew up in low-income … probability of being overweight). Amongst men who grew up in middle or high-income households, enrolling in higher education has …

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Employability and Earnings Returns to Qualifications in Scotland

Gasteen, Anne; Houston, John - In: Regional Studies 41 (2007) 4, pp. 443-452

A. und Houston J. (2007) Auswirkung von Qualifikationen auf Beschaftigungsfahigkeit und Einkommen in Schottland … der Dezentralisierung ist Schottland fur die Bildungspolitik zustandig, doch die Auswirkungen auf Einkommen und … Einkommen und Beschaftigungsfahigkeit anhand der Daten des Labour Force Survey von 1999 bis 2003 untersucht. Schulabschlusse auf …

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Do risk aversion and wages explain educational choices?

Brodaty, Thomas; Gary-Bobo, Robert J.; Prieto, Ana - In: Journal of Public Economics 117 (2014) C, pp. 125-148

We study a model in which a student's investment in education maximizes expected utility conditional on public and private information. The model takes future wage risk into account and treats the direct and opportunity costs of education as additional sources of risk. In particular, the time...

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Estimating Private Returns to Education in Mexico

Harberger, Arnold C.; Guillermo-Peón, Sylvia - In: Latin American Journal of Economics-formerly Cuadernos … 49 (2012) 1, pp. 1-35

This study explores the relationship between education and wages in Mexico. It contributes to our understanding of the structure of wages, helping explain individuals’ choices concerning education level. First, we estimate the age-earnings functions for each level of education. Then, taking...

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Have the returns to education really increased in Vietnam? Wage versus employment effect

Oostendorp, Remco H.; Doan, Quang Hong - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 41 (2013) 3, pp. 923-938

Many studies have analyzed changes in the returns to education in globalizing economies using the Mincerian framework. These studies have typically estimated the returns to education in terms of changes in wages rather than employment, effectively ignoring the fact that during globalization not...

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Are Educational Mismatches Responsible for the ‘Inequality Increasing Effect’ of Education?

Budría, Santiago - In: Social Indicators Research 102 (2011) 3, pp. 409-437

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Schooling returns, schooling decisions and educational finance

Harmon, Colm - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2002

closely, so as to investigate the effect of variables such as family income on that choice. Proposed educational finance … households and individual students for participation in education, thus reducing the opportunity cost of staying on at school …

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Schooling, Capital Constraints and Entrepreneurial Performance

Praag, C.M. van; Parker, S.C. - 2004

To what extent is the performance of a small business venture, once started, affected by capital constraints at the time of inception and by the business founder's investment in human capital? We attempt to answer this question taking into account the potential endogeneity of human and financial...

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Returns to Education in Australia

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2007

Using data from the 2001-2005 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey, and taking …

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Absolute Risk Aversion and the Returns to Education

Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

Survey on the Income and Wealth of Italian households. This measure, conditional on financial and real wealth and household … income, is used as an instrument for attained education in a standard log earnings equation. I find that, in line with the …

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