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School absenteeism, work and health among Brazilian children: Full information versus limited information model
Machado, Danielle Carusi; Milcent, Carine; Huguenin, Jack - HAL - 2013
We estimate a system of three behavioral equations for Brazilian children and teenagers (school absenteeism, health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010784100
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School absenteeism, work and health among Brazilian children: Full information versus limited information model
Machado, Danielle Carusi; Milcent, Carine; Huguenin, Jack - HAL - 2013
We estimate a system of three behavioral equations for Brazilian children and teenagers (school absenteeism, health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010755510
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Benefits to elite schools and the formation of expected returns to education: Evidence from Mexico City
Estrada, Ricardo; Gignoux, Jérémie - HAL - 2014
increases learning achievement, and also the future earnings and returns students expect from a college education, but no effect … on the earnings expected with high school education alone. This suggests that students believe that the benefits from … their elite education are complements to a college education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750995
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Returns to Education and Education-Occupation Mismatch within a Transition Economy. Empirical Analysis for the Russian Federation
Kyui, Natalia - HAL - 2010
This paper makes a thorough analysis of the returns to tertiary education and education-occupation matches within a … the Russian Federation that the increase in the returns to education which happened in previous years does not indicate … education is deconstructed in three parts characterizing the labor market : education-occupation match, payment for occupations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603626
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The Return to Schooling in Structural Dynamic Models: A Survey
Belzil, Christian - HAL - 2006
This papers contains a survey of the recent literature devoted to the returns to schooling within a dynamic structural framework. I present a historical perspective on the evolution of the literature, from early static models set in a selectivity framework (Willis and Rosen, 1979) to the recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008792063
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Earnings Dispersion, Risk Aversion and Education
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - HAL - 2004
We estimate a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the degree of risk aversion can be inferred from schooling decisions. In our model, individuals are heterogeneous with respect to school and market abilities but homogeneous with respect to the degree of risk aversion. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008792277
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Testing the Specification of the Mincer Wage Equation
Belzil, Christian - HAL - 2006
Using panel data taken from the NLSY, I perform the joint estimation of i) a reduced-form dynamic model of the transition from one grade level to the next with observed and unobserved heterogeneity, and ii) a flexible version of the celebrated Mincerian wage equation with skill heterogeneity,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793057
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The Measurement of Educational Inequality: Achievement and Opportunity
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Gignoux, Jérémie - HAL - 2011
This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. It is selected after careful consideration of two measurement issues that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738882
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The Measurement of Educational Inequality: Achievement and Opportunity
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Gignoux, Jérémie - HAL - 2011
This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. It is selected after careful consideration of two measurement issues that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010784106
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Social preferences and lying aversion in children
Maggian, Valeria; Villeval, Marie Claire - HAL - 2014
of children aged between 7 and 14, we find strong aversion to lying at all ages. Lying is driven mainly by selfish … motives and envy. Children with stronger social preferences are less prone to deception, even when lying would benefit others … at no monetary cost. Older children lie less than younger children and require more selfjustification to lie. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899506