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Education and Entrepreneurial Choice: An Instrumental Variables Analysis
Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Institute - 2009
Education is argued to be an important driver of the decision to start a business. The measurement of its influence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008513229
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Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework
Douhan, Robin; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Institute - 2009
We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004964455
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The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurship Competencies and Intentions
Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van; IJsselstein, Auke - Tinbergen Institute - 2008
This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students’ entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144437
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School Choice and Competition
Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Geest, Stephanie van der; Gradus, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2009
the leading principle of the Dutch education system since the beginning of the 20th century. Based on panel data for the … Netherlands we show that there is a relation between competition and student achievement in upper secondary education, but that it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144456
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Employment Assimilation of Immigrants in the Netherlands
Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Institute - 2008
irrelevance of education for socio-economic position of immigrants once the country of origin has been controlled for. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504936
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Education, Growth and Income Inequality
Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - Tinbergen Institute - 2002
Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the … of education reduces the private return by 2 percentage points, consistent with Katz-Murphy's (1992) elasticity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042232
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A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health over the Life Cycle
Galama, Titus J.; Kippersluis, Hans van - Tinbergen Institute - 2010
Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008484063
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Family Background Variables as Instruments for Education in Income Regressions: A Bayesian Analysis
Hoogerheide, Lennart; Block, Joern H.; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Institute - 2010
The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In … (perfect validity of the instrument). The size of the bias is in many cases smaller than the standard error of education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008484065
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Are Education Subsidies an Efficient Redistributive Device?
Dur, Robert A.J.; Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Institute - 2003
This discussion paper has resulted in ch. 4 of <A href="http://books.google.nl/books?hl=nl&lr=&id=edksC0nRPZYC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=allesintitel:+%22Labor+Market+Institutions+and+Public+Regulation%22&ots=-umxBkjdnT&sig=oeFDTjhnSeo-w-4nuTjTJpuaUr8#v=onepage&q=&f=false">'Labor Market Institutions and Public Regulation'</A>, pp. 123-61, (Jonas Agell, Michael Keen, Alfons Weichenrieder (eds.)), 2004, MIT Press, 228 p.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136877
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Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance
Sluis, Justin van der; Praag, Mirjam van; Vijverberg, Wim - Tinbergen Institute - 2003
entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144501