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The effect of education on smoking behavior: new evidence from smoking durations of a sample of twins
Koning, Pierre; Webbink, Dinand; Martin, Nicholas G. - 2010
This paper analyses the effect of education on starting and quitting smoking, using longitudinal data of Australian … twins. The endogeneity of education, censoring of smoking durations and the timing of starting smoking versus that of … education reduces the duration of smoking with 9 months but has no effect on the decision to start smoking. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269661
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Determinants in University Desertion and Graduation: An Application using Duration Models
Giovagnoli, Paula - In: Económica LI (2005) 1-2, pp. 59-90
This study examines the issue of student departure from a public university. Non-parametric proportional hazard models are used to estimate the quantitative and qualitative effects of the students’ personal and socioeconomic characteristics on the probability of their dropping out or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005258435
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Deserción estudiantil universitaria: una aplicación de modelos de duración
Vélez, Elkin Castaño; Gómez, Santiago Gallón; … - In: Lecturas de Economía (2004) 60, pp. 39-65
In contrast with previous studies on university drop-out, which have tried to explain it only according to some of the features that theoretically have been proposed, this article analyzes the student’s drop-out problem in the University of Antioquia incorporating jointly individual,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005176755
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The effect of education on smoking behavior : new evidence from smoking durations of a sample of twins
Koning, Pierre; Webbink, Herman Dinand; Martin, Nicholas G. - 2010
This paper analyses the effect of education on starting and quitting smoking, using longitudinal data of Australian … twins. The endogeneity of education, censoring of smoking durations and the timing of starting smoking versus that of … education reduces the duration of smoking with 9 months but has no effect on the decision to start smoking. -- Smoking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941778
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The Effect of Education on Smoking Behavior : New Evidence from Smoking Durations of a Sample of Twins
Koning, Pierre - 2010
This paper analyses the effect of education on starting and quitting smoking, using longitudinal data of Australian … twins. The endogeneity of education, censoring of smoking durations and the timing of starting smoking versus that of … education reduces the duration of smoking with 9 months but has no effect on the decision to start smoking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146830
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Do Stepping Stone Jobs exist? Early Career Paths in the Medical Profession
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Holm, Anders; van Ours, Jan C. - 1999
In the Netherlands, students who want to become a medical specialist have toenrol in a training program which is in limited supply. During the search for aposition as trainee (or junior medical specialist), they may accept atemporary job as a medical assistant. We use a micro data set to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324433
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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Modin, Bitte - 2013
education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 … direct biological mechanisms. We do not find evidence of indirect pathways through ability or education, and the long …-run effects are not mitigated by education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329078
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Fast Track or Failure: A Study of the Completion Rates of Graduate Students in Economics
van Ours, Jan C.; Ridder, Geert - 2000
This paper presents an analysis of the failure and completion rates of graduate students in economics at three universities in The Netherlands. We find that an indicator of the research productivity of the supervisor is an important determinant of the completion and dropout rates. However, this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262332
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Do stepping stone jobs exist? : early career paths in the medical profession
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Holm, Anders; Ours, Jan C. van - 1999
In the Netherlands, students who want to become a medical specialist have toenrol in a training program which is in limited supply. During the search for aposition as trainee (or "junior medical specialist"), they may accept atemporary job as a medical assistant. We use a micro data set to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301153
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Fast track or failure : a study of the completion rates of graduate students in economics
Ours, Jan C. van; Ridder, Geert - 2000
This paper presents an analysis of the failure and completion rates of graduate students in economics at three universities in The Netherlands. We find that an indicator of the research productivity of the supervisor is an important determinant of the completion and dropout rates. However, this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318598