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Estimating the Effect of School Time of Instruction on Student Achievements
Lavy, Victor - 2001
students' ability and past achievement, I use instrumental variables that are derived from two allocation rules that partly … suggest that increasing instruction hours and reducing class size have significant effects on students' achievements. The OLS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014123726
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Earnings risk and demand for higher education
Hartog, Joop; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2002
We develop a simple human capital model for optimum schooling length when earnings are stochastic, and highlight the pivotal role of risk attitudes and the schooling gradient of earnings risk. We use Spanish data to document the gradient and to estimate individual response to earnings risk in...
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Student earnings expectations : heterogeneity or noise?
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Hartog, Joop; Nilsson, William; … - 2016 - First draft 12-05-14; revised 26-01-15; this draft 19-09-2016
Students' choices in education can only be based on expected outcomes. Econometric models that infer expectations based …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544177
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Do wage expectations influence the decision to enroll in nursing college?
Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop - 2015
As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage …. This suggests that policies that increase returns from studying nursing can attract students to nursing. In addition, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283119
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Do wage expectations predict college enrollment? : evidence from healthcare
Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 141 (2017), pp. 135-150
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Student Earnings Expectations : Heterogeneity or Noise?
Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2016
Students' choices in education can only be based on expected outcomes. Econometric models that infer expectations based …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979578
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Long run effects of free school choice : college attainment, employment, earnings, and social outcomes at adulthood
Lavy, Victor - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483611
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Unobserved heterogeneity and risk in wage variance : does more schooling reduce earnings risk?
Mazza, Jacopo; Ophem, Hans van; Hartog, Joop - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 24 (2013), pp. 323-338
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The Good, the Bad and the Average : Evidence on the Scale and Nature of Ability Peer Effects in Schools
Lavy, Victor - 2009
ability distribution drive the impact of peer quality on students‟ achievements. To do so, we use census data for four cohorts … of pupils taking their age-14 national tests, and measure students‟ ability by their prior achievements at age-11. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463049
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The Good, the Bad and the Average : Evidence on the Scale and Nature of Ability Peer Effects in Schools
Lavy, Victor - 2010
ability distribution drive the impact of peer quality on students‟ achievements. To do so, we use census data for four cohorts … of pupils taking their age-14 national tests, and measure students‟ ability by their prior achievements at age-11. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149658