ASTRONOMICS IN ACTION: THE GRADUATE EARNINGS PREMIUM AND THE DRAGON EFFECT IN SINGAPORE.
This paper investigates the return to university education in Singapore using a new estimation strategy related to Chinese traditions where children born in the Year of the Dragon are believed to be superior. Because parents might time the arrival of their offspring on a Dragon year, this causes the...
| Publicado en: | Economic Inquiry Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 922 - 940 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Apr2015
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