Essays in empirical education and health economics / vorgelegt von Beatrice Baaba Tawiah, Master of Science. Paderborn, 2023
Inhalt
- Introduction
- Does Education Improve Cognitive Performance Four Decades After School Completion?
- Does Education have an Impact on Patience and Risk Willingness?
- Introduction
- German Educational Reform Background
- Data
- Empirical Strategy
- Empirical Results
- Robustness Checks
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Life-cycle Health Effects of Compulsory Schooling
- Introduction
- Institutional framework and Data
- Institutional framework and sample selection
- Outcome variables and descriptive statistics
- OLS estimations
- Instrumental variables estimations by age group
- Potential mechanisms
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- The Effect of Children on Health
- Introduction
- Identification Strategy
- Data
- Empirical Strategy
- Empirical Results
- Robustness Checks
- Effect on Various Illnesses
- Attrition
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Eigenständigkeitserklärung