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In brief: University exam results matter
Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
As thousands of undergraduates across the UK take their exams, a study by Andy Feng and Georg Graetz reveals the importance of the results for subsequent earnings - specifically the value of a First compared with an Upper Second and the difference between an Upper Second and a Lower Second.
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A Question of Degree: The Effects of Degree Class on Labor Market Outcomes
Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
How does measured performance at university affect labor market outcomes? We show that degree class - a coarse measure of student performance used in the UK - causally affects graduates' industry and hence expected wages. To control for unobserved ability, we employ a regression discontinuity...
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Innovation and Social Capital: A Cross-country Investigation
Doh, Soogwan; Acs, Zoltan J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital … that social capital has a positive impact on innovation at the national level. After controlling for R&D expenditure and … human capital there is a positive relationship between social capital and innovation. Social capital interacts with …
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Human Capital Diversity and Product Innovation: A Micro-Level Analysis
Söllner, Rene - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper investigates the relationship between human capital diversity measured in terms of occupational diversity and a firm's likelihood to innovate. The empirical analysis is based on a linked employer-employee panel dataset of German firms over the period 1998 to 2007. Despite notable...
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Giving a Little Help to Girls? Evidence on Grade Discrimination and its Effect on Students' Achievement
Terrier, Camille - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015
This paper tests if gender-discrimination in grading affects pupils' achievements and course choices. I use a unique dataset containing grades given by teachers, scores obtained anonymously by pupils at different ages, and their course choice during high school. Based on double-differences, the...
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Better Luck Next Time: Learning through Retaking
Krishna, Kala; Lychagin, Sergey; Yavas, Cemile; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014
This paper provides some evidence that repeat taking of competitive exams may reduce the impact of background disadvantages on educational outcomes. Using administra- tive data on the university entrance exam in Turkey, the paper estimates cumulative learning between the first and the nth...
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Equidad en la distribución de la oferta de educación pública en Argentina
Bezem, Pablo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Las escuelas pobres para "pobres" cristalizan la brecha social y profundizan las desigualdades. En otras palabras, las condiciones materiales de las escuelas pueden tener un efecto redistributivo porque impactan positivamente sobre el aprendizaje y contrarrestan la incidencia del nivel...
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Assesing Educational Equality and Equity with Large-Scale Assessment Data: Brazil as a Case Study
Willms, J. Douglas; Tramonte, Lucía; Duarte, Jesús; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Researchers have defined and assessed inequalities and inequities in education in various ways, making it difficult to make comparisons among countries or among jurisdictions within countries. This paper sets out practical definitions for equality and equity in education and discusses the...
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Calidad, igualdad y equidad en la educación colombiana (Análisis de la prueba SABER 2009)
Duarte, Jesús; Bos, María Soledad; Moreno, Martín - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Esta Nota Técnica describe la desigualdad en los aprendizajes de los alumnos colombianos y analiza la equidad en la distribución de los recursos y procesos que ocurren en la escuela y su relación con los aprendizajes. Usando la base de datos del SABER 2009, el análisis muestra que en...
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Intergenerational Mobility, Middle Sectors and Entrepreneurship in Uruguay
Gandelman, Nestor; Robano, Virginia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
This paper estimates the relationship between parents’ educational attainment and income and children’s schooling in Uruguay between 1982 and 2010. This relationship is interpreted as a measure of intergenerational social mobility, and the paper reports evidence that it has decreased over...
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