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Expected future earnings, taxation, and university enrollment : a microeconometric model with uncertainty

Fossen, Frank M.; Glocker, Daniela - 2009

Taxation changes the expectations of prospective university students about their future level and uncertainty of after …

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Risk and returns to educational fields : a financial asset approach to vocational and academic education

Glocker, Daniela; Storck, Johanna - 2012 - This version: August 29, 2012

Applying a financial assets approach, we analyze the returns and earnings risk of investments into different types of human capital. Even though the returns from investing in human capital are extensively studied, little is known about the properties of the returns to different types of human...

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Media and occupational choice

Konon, Alexander; Kritikos, Alexander - 2017

We address the question of whether media influences occupational choices. To theoretically examine media effects, we construct a dynamic Bayesian occupational choice model with sequential decisions under ambiguity due to imperfect information. We show that sufficiently intensive positive media...

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Does employer learning vary by occupation?

Mansour, Hani - 2010

Models in which employers learn about the productivity of young workers, such as Altonji and Pierret (2001), have two principal implications: First, the distribution of wages becomes more dispersed as a cohort of workers gains experience; second, the coefficient on a variable that employers...

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The broken elevator : declining absolute mobility of living standards in Germany

Bönke, Timm; Harnack-Eber, Astrid; Lüthen, Holger - 2024

This study provides the first absolute income mobility estimates for postwar Germany. Using various micro data sources, we uncover a steep decline in absolute mobility rates from 81 percent to 59 percent for children's birth cohorts 1962 through 1988. This trend is robust across different ages,...

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Intended college enrollment and educational inequality : do students lack information?

Peter, Frauke; Zambre, Vaishali - 2016

Despite increasing access to university education, students from disadvantaged or non-academic family backgrounds are … from a German randomized controlled trial in which students in high schools were treated with information on the benefits … increases intended college enrollment for students from a non-academic family background, while it leads students from academic …

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Informing students about college : an efficient way to decrease the socio-economic gap in enrollment : evidence from a randomized field experiment

Peter, Frauke; Spieß, C. Katharina; Zambre, Vaishali - 2018

Although the proportion of students enrolled in college increased in the last decades, students from non-college family … information in a randomized controlled trial with more than 1,000 German high school students results in higher college enrollment … rates. One year prior to high school graduation, we treated students in randomly selected schools by giving an in …

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Intergenerational effects of education on risky health behaviours and long-term health

Huebener, Mathias - 2017

This paper estimates the causal effects of parental education on their children's risky health behaviours and health status. I study the intergenerational effects of a compulsory schooling reform in Germany after World War II. Implemented across federal states at different points in time, the...

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Auswirkungen der Einführung der Sozialversicherungspflicht für geringfügige Beschäftigung : eine Evaluation des "630-DM-Jobs"-Reformgesetzes

Schwarze, Johannes; Heineck, Guido - 2001

Mit den Längsschnittdaten des SOEP wird in diesem Beitrag untersucht, wie geringfügig Beschäftigte auf die im April 1999 eingeführte Sozialversicherungspflicht für derartige Beschäftigungsverhältnisse reagiert haben. Da ausschließlich geringfügig Beschäftigte und geringfügig...

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Stated and revealed heterogeneous risk preferences in educational choice

Fossen, Frank M.; Glocker, Daniela - 2014

Stated survey measures of risk preferences are increasingly being used in the literature, and they have been compared to revealed risk aversion primarily by means of experiments such as lottery choice tasks. In this paper, we investigate educational choice, which involves the comparison of risky...

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