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The economics and econometrics of gene-environment interplay
Biroli, Pietro; Galama, Titus; Hinke Kessler Scholder, … - 2022
Economists and social scientists have debated the relative importance of nature (one's genes) and nurture (one's environment) for decades, if not centuries. This debate can now be informed by the ready availability of genetic data in a growing number of social science datasets. This paper...
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Measurement error in education and growth regressions
Portela, Miguel; Alessie, Rob; Teulings, Coen N. - 2005
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335189
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Marriage markets and single motherhood in South Africa
Gustafsson, Siv S.; Worku, Seble Y. - 2006
This paper studies the effects of local marriage markets on South African women’s marital decisions. The analysis is … Africans aged 20-40 makes us believe that shortage of marriageable men may explain marriage patterns. Economic theory predicts … matter in the marital choice of women who have at least one child. Exposing African women to the White woman’s marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011350383
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The effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling : a nonparametric bounds analysis
Haan, Monique de - 2008
This paper uses a relatively new approach to investigate the effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling; a nonparametric bounds analysis based on Manski and Pepper (2000), using the most recent version of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. We start with making no assumptions and then add...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376535
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How risky is investment in human capital?
Hartog, Joop; Ophem, Hans van; Bajdechi, Simona Maria - 2004
skewed. Our best guess of ex ante risk in university education is a coefficient ofvariation of about 0.3, comparable to that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335192
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Intergenerational persistence in the effects of compulsory schooling in the US
Galama, Titus; Munteanu, Andrei; Thom, Kevin - 2024
parental exposure to CS affected children's outcomes through higher own human capital, marriage to more educated spouses, and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014457867
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The fast and the studious? : Ramadan observance and student performance
Hanemaaijer, Kyra; Marie, Olivier; Musumeci, Marco - 2023 - This version: April 2023
What are the consequences of religious obligations conflicting with civic duties? We investigate this question by evaluating changes in the performance of practicing Muslim students when end-of-secondary-school exams and Ramadan overlapped in the Netherlands. Using administrative data on exam...
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Skills, parental sorting, and child inequality
Nybom, Martin; Plug, Erik J. S.; Klaauw, Bas van der; … - 2022 - This version: December 2022
This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013472300
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The consequences of implementing a child care voucher : evidence from Australia, the Netherlands and USA
Warner, Mildred; Gradus, Raymond - 2009
In the Netherlands, the USA and Australia public funding has promoted parental choice by introducing a voucher for child care, where parents are free to choose the provider. The policy experiments in these three countries and the outcomes provide useful information about the consequences of...
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The wage penalty of dialect-speaking
Ours, Jan C. van; Yao, Yuxin - 2016
Our paper studies the effects of dialect-speaking on job characteristics of Dutch workers, in particular on their hourly wages. The unconditional difference in median hourly wages between standard Dutch speakers and dialect speakers is about 10.6% for males and 6.7% for females. If we take into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011556227