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Several commentators have argued that vocational education provides a smoother school to work transition than academic … indicate that the initial advantage associated to vocational education declines over time, without turning however into a …. Overall, our evidence suggests that vocational education is associated to lower expected long-term utility only for the …
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Several commentators have argued that vocational education provides a smoother school to work transition than academic … indicate that the initial advantage associated to vocational education declines over time, without turning however into a …. Overall, our evidence suggests that vocational education is associated to lower expected long-term utility only for the …
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traditional equilibrium, contraceptives are not used, fertility is high and education and growth are low. At the modern … equilibrium, contraceptives are used, fertility is low and further declining with increasing income, and education and growth are … provide more education for their children and leads to an earlier uptake of modern contraceptives and an earlier onset of the …
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It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present paper provides a theory of why the "latitude gradient"...
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It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present paper provides a theory of why the “latitude gradient”...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011617886
calibrate the model to US data and show that the historical evolution of increasing education and declining labor supply can be … a longer active life by educating more and, if the labor supply elasticity is high enough, by supplying less labor. We …
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We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … we consider the entire history of behaviors. We use an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of education and … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education …
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