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Human Capital and Ferility Decisions: A Comparative Microeconometric Analysis in Europe
Aldieri, Luigi; Vinci, Concetto Paolo; Barone, Adriana - In: Economics Bulletin 28 (2007) 18, pp. 0-0
main objective has been to compare the effects of education on the probability of having a child for some EU countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008556169
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Human capital, income, fertility and child policy
Gori, Luca; Fanti, Luciano - In: Economics Bulletin 9 (2008) 7, pp. 1-7
This paper analyses the effectiveness of child-subsidy support policies in a general equilibrium overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility, child quality choices and human capital formation. It is shown, somewhat paradoxically, that only if the preference for the quality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010629958
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Network attributes and peer effects
Lin, Xu - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 3, pp. 2060-2079
This paper investigates how network attributes affect the strength of peer influences in adolescents' academic achievement and smoking behaviors. The results indicate that for both GPA and smoking, endogenous peer effects are stronger for network groups with larger size, higher network density...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011039076
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Human Capital and Ferility Decisions: A Comparative Microeconometric Analysis in Europe
Aldieri, Luigi; Vinci, Concetto Paolo; Barone, Adriana - In: Economics Bulletin 28 (2007) 18, pp. 0-0
main objective has been to compare the effects of education on the probability of having a child for some EU countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213796
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Human capital, income, fertility and child policy
Gori, Luca; Fanti, Luciano - In: Economics Bulletin 9 (2008) 7, pp. 1-7
This paper analyses the effectiveness of child-subsidy support policies in a general equilibrium overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility, child quality choices and human capital formation. It is shown, somewhat paradoxically, that only if the preference for the quality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005767611
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Identifying the Causal Effect of Marriage on Women's Labor Force Participation in the Presence of Chinese Superstition
Zhang, Junchao; Zhang, Shiying - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 2, pp. 986-997
. Using micro-data from the Chinese Population Census, this paper exploits exogenous variations in marriage caused by the … of marriage has been found for both rural and urban females in China, decreases the probability of female labor force …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265564
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Does education really matter for environmental quality?
Kinda, Romuald S - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 4, pp. 2612-2626
This paper investigates the impact of education on the growth of carbon dioxide emissions per capita over the period … 1970-2004 in 85 countries. Using panel data and applying GMM-System estimations, our results suggest that education has no … sub-sample, education does matter for air pollution growth in the developed countries. More interestingly, when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008672245
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Does offering more Advanced Placement courses increase enrollment?
Lang, Bree J - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 1, pp. 893-904
This study utilizes a grant in California that required a group of high schools to increase the number of Advanced Placement (AP) courses offered to their students. The grant provides an arguably exogenous increase in the number of AP courses offered in a school. Using an instrumental variable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008868006
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Impact of education on the shadow economy: Institutions matter
Buehn, Andreas; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 3, pp. 2052-2063
Using panel data for more than 80 countries from 1999-2007 this paper studies the marginal effect of education on the … shadow economy, particularly considering the quality of institutions. The results show that higher levels of education fuel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010836002
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Efficiency in English higher education institutions revisited: a network approach
Johnes, Geraint - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 4, pp. 2698-2706
The efficiency of English higher education institutions is evaluated using a traditional ‘black-box' data envelopment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010836051