Family and gender still matter: the heterogeneity of returns to education in Germany
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Returns to education; siblings analysis; heterogeneity of returns;All these keywords.
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- J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
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