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on Education |
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Issue of 2007‒05‒04
five papers chosen by Joao Carlos Correia Leitao University of the Beira Interior |
| By: | Schrage, Andrea |
| Abstract: | Most studies of the negative correlation between fertility and education treat education as exogenously raising wages and the cost of child rearing, thus reducing fertility. I relax these assumptions in two respects. First, child costs don't increase with the value of time when external child care is used. Second, over a lifetime, education is endogenous. I model women's choice of education, fertility, and form of child care, allowing for economies of scale in parental child care. Compatibility between work and family duties increases labor supply, the demand for children of educated women, and enhances incentives for obtaining education. |
| Keywords: | endogenous fertility, child care, education |
| JEL: | H31 D13 J22 J13 |
| Date: | 2007–04–23 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bay:rdwiwi:789&r=edu |
| By: | Thomas Siedler (Institute for Social and Economic Research) |
| Abstract: | This paper examines whether schooling has a positive impact on individual's political interest, voting turnout, democratic values, political involvement and political group membership, using the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS). Between 1949 and 1969 the number of compulsory years of schooling was increased from eight to nine years in the Federal Republic of Germany, gradually over time and across federal states. These law changes allow one to investigate the causal impact of years of schooling on citizenship. Years of schooling are found to be positively correlated with a broad range of political outcome measures. However, when exogenous increase in schooling through law changes is used, there is no evidence of a causal effect running from schooling to citizenship in Germany. |
| Date: | 2007–01 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ese:iserwp:2007-02&r=edu |
| By: | Minford, Patrick (Cardiff Business School); Meenagh, David (Cardiff Business School); Wang, Jiang |
| Abstract: | The effect of business tax and regulation on growth, together with potential effects of government spending on education and R&D, is embodied in a model of a small open economy with growth choices. The structural model is estimated on post-war panel data for 76 countries and the bootstrap is used to produce the model's sampling variation for the analysis of panel regressions of growth. Statistical rejection can occur at either the structural or the growth regression stage. The models featuring government spending on education and R&D are rejected while that with business taxation is accepted. |
| Keywords: | growth; living standards; business regulation; business taxation; public education; government R&D; structural model; bootstrap testing |
| JEL: | O41 O57 C52 |
| Date: | 2007–04 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cdf:wpaper:2007/12&r=edu |
| By: | James B. Davies (University of Western Ontario); Martin G. Kocher (University of Innsbruck); Matthias Sutter (University of Amsterdam) |
| Abstract: | We examine the publications of authors affiliated with an economics research institution in Canada in (i) the Top-10 journals in economics according to journals' impact factors, and (ii) the Canadian Journal of Economics. We consider all publications in the even years from 1980 to 2000. Canadian economists contributed about 5% of publications in the Top-10 journals and about 55% of publications in the Canadian Journal of Economics over this period. We identify the most active research centres and identify trends in their relative outputs over time. Those research centres successful in publishing in the Top-10 journals are found to also dominate the Canadian Journal of Economics. Additionally, we check the robustness of our findings with respect to journal selection, and we present data on authors' Ph.D.-origin, thereby indicating output and its concentration in graduate education. |
| Keywords: | research in economics; Canadian economics; top journals |
| JEL: | A14 |
| Date: | 2007 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:uwo:uwowop:20072&r=edu |
| By: | Lorenzo Cappellari (Department of Economics, Università Cattolica di Milano); Marco Leonardi (University of Milan) |
| Abstract: | This paper develops a tractable empirical approach to estimate the effect of on-the-job tenure on the permanent and the transitory variance of earnings. The model is also used to evaluate earnings instability associated with fixed-term contracts (short-tenure contracts) in Italy. Our results indicate that each year of tenure on the job reduces earnings instability on average by 15%. Workers on a fixed-term contract on average have an earnings instability 10% higher than workers on a permanent contract. Workers who spend their entire working life on fixed-term contracts can expect an earnings instability twice as high. |
| Date: | 2007–02 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ese:iserwp:2007-04&r=edu |