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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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Estimates of Economic Return to Schooling in the UK.

Harmon, Colm; Walker, Ian - Department of Economics, National University of Ireland - 1995

This paper uses UK data to estimate the returns to schooling. We address the endogeneity of schooling by exploiting the experimental nature of two changes in the minimum school leaving age to instrument eduction. The corrected estimates of the return to education indicate the presence of a large...

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Economic Returns to Education: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and Where We Are Going – Some Brief Pointers

Harmon, Colm - Geary Institute, University College Dublin - 2011

The estimation of the economic return to education has perhaps been one of the predominant areas of analysis in applied economics for over 50 years. In this short note we consider some of the recent directions taken by the literature, and also some of the blockages faced by both science and...

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Economic returns to education: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and Where We Are Going—Some brief pointers

Dickson, Matt; Harmon, Colm - In: Economics of Education Review 30 (2011) 6, pp. 1118-1122

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Gender Differences in Competitiveness and Risk Taking: Comparing Children in Colombia and Sweden

Cárdenas, Juan-Camilo; Dreber, Anna; Essen, Emma von; … - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2011

We explore gender differences in preferences for competition and risk among children aged 9-12 in Colombia and Sweden …

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Gender Differences in Competitiveness and Risk Taking: Comparing Children in Colombia and Sweden

Cárdenas, Juan-Camilo; Dreber, Anna; von Essen, Emma; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2010

We explore gender differences in preferences for competition and risk among children aged 9-12 in Colombia and Sweden …

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Gender differences in competitiveness and risk taking: comparing children in Colombia and Sweden

Cárdenas, Juan-Camilo; Dreber, Anna; von Essen, Emma; … - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2010

We explore gender differences in preferences for competition and risk among children aged 9-12 in Colombia and Sweden …

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Gender and Cooperation in Children: Experiments in Colombia and Sweden

Cárdenas, Juan-Camilo; Dreber, Anna; von Essen, Emma; … - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2011

This paper compares cooperation among Columbian and Swedish children aged 9-12. We illustrate the dynamics of the … prisoner’s dilemma in a new task that is easily understood by children and performed during a physical education class. We find … some evidence that children cooperate more in Sweden than in Colombia. Girls in Colombia are less cooperative than boys …

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Gender and Cooperation in Children: Experiments in Colombia and Sweden

Cárdenas, Juan-Camilo; Drebber, Anna; Essen, Emma von; … - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2012

This paper compares cooperation among Columbian and Swedish children aged 9-12. We illustrate the dynamics of the … prisoner´s dilemma in a new task that is easily understood by children and performed during a physical education class. We find … some evidence that children cooperate more in Sweden than in Colombia. Girls in Colombia are less cooperative than boys …

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