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This paper studies human-capital formation, labor-supply, and retirement decisions associated with four alternative regimes of social security. We implement a theoretical model with overlapping generations of households and two different ability types within each generation. We find that with a...
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estimate education returns of wage earners and the self-employed in Portugal and in Spain. Our examination reveals several …
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We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source … of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on … the number of biological kids and the incidence of childlessness. Wend that more education causes a substantial decrease …
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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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We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source … of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on … the number of biological kids and the incidence of childlessness. We find that more education causes a substantial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009324255
We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source … of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on … the number of biological kids and the incidence of childlessness. We find that more education causes a substantial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325427
We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source … of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on … the number of biological kids and the incidence of childlessness. We find that more education causes a substantial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325741
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325756
We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source … of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on … the number of biological kids and the incidence of childlessness. We find that more education causes a substantial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325757
In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical … approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this … approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12 European countries and has information on education, health and health …
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