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Education and its effects on income and mortality of men aged sixty-five and over in Great Britain
Dorsett, Richard; Lui, Silvia; Weale, Martin - In: Labour Economics 27 (2014) C, pp. 71-82
We explore the effects of income and, additionally education on the income, self-reported health and survival of men … conventional analysis with its focus on labour income excluding employers' pension contributions. We find that income at age sixty …
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The health returns to schooling—what can we learn from twins?
Lundborg, Petter - In: Journal of Population Economics 26 (2013) 2, pp. 673-701
This paper estimates the health returns to schooling, using a twin design. For this purpose, I use data on monozygotic twins from the Midlife in the United States survey. The results suggest that completing high school improves health, as measured through self-reported health, chronic...
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Regionale Bildungsrenditen und weitere Disparitäten in Deutschland
Reilich, Julia - In: Review of Regional Research 33 (2013) 1, pp. 49-72
Estimating a return to education für Germany as a whole gives one return on human capital on average. This article extends the existing literature using a regional perspective. On a federal-state-level the regional returns are estimable. Therefore the dataset is separated due to regional...
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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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Chancengleichheit durch den Zweiten Bildungsweg? - Langfristige Arbeitsmarkterträge später Hochschulreife
Sterrenberg, Margret K. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2014
I analyze the long-term labor market returns after completing a higher education entrance (HEE) qualification as a qualified worker older than age 20 (Zweiter Bildungsweg), using data of the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS). I use a Mincer-type equation, where the school-leaving...
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Education and allocation of skills in Tunisia: evidence from an education reform
Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Pellicer, Miquel - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013) 1, pp. 1-21
instrument probably affected the academically weaker students this pattern of results suggests that the public sector might …
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Firm entry deregulation, competition and returns to education and skill
Fernandes, Ana P.; Ferreira, Priscila; Alan Winters, L. - In: European Economic Review 70 (2014) C, pp. 210-230
This paper studies the effect of firm entry deregulation on the returns to skill and education. We exploit a comprehensive episode of entry deregulation, unique in the industrialized world, as a quasi-natural experiment. Using matched employer–employee data for the universe of workers and...
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Learning to Take Risks? The Effect of Education on Risk-Taking in Financial Markets
Black, Sandra E; Devereux, Paul J; Lundborg, Petter; … - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2015
markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is substantial evidence that more educated people … spouses or children. …
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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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Does the Labour Market Explain Lower Female Schooling in India?
Kingdon, Geeta Gandhi - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 1997
Labour market discrimination against women and parental discrimination against daughters are two of the most commonly cited explanations of the gender gap in education in developing countries. This study empirically tests the labour market explanation for India using household survey data...
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