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Measuring Heterogeneity in the Returns to Education in Norway Using Educational Reforms

Aakvik, Arild; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Vaage, Kjell - 2003

The decision to take more education is complex, and is influenced by individual ability, financial constraints, family background, preferences, etc. Such factors, normally unobserved by the researcher, introduce endogeneity and heterogeneity problems into estimating the returns to education. In...

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From the cradle to the labor market? The effect of birth weight on adult outcomes

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2005

of children from poorer families. …

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Care or cash? The effect of child care subsidies on student performance

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Loken, Katrine V.; … - 2012

, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic … these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school …

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Too young to leave the nest? The effects of school starting age

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2008

using scores from IQ tests taken outside of school, at the time of military enrolment, and measured when students are around …

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A Second Chance? Labor Market Returns to Adult Education Using School Reforms

Bennett, Patrick; Blundell, Richard; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2020

Roughly one third of a cohort drop out of high school across OECD countries, and developing effective tools to address prime-aged high school dropouts is a key policy question. We leverage high quality Norwegian register data, and for identification we exploit reforms enabling access to high...

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A second chance? Labor market returns to adult education using school reforms

Bennett, Patrick; Blundell, Richard W.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2020

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A Second Chance? The Labor Market Outcomes of Reforming Access to Adult Education

Bennett, Patrick; Blundell, Richard; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2021

Developing effective tools to address prime-aged high school dropouts is a key policy question. We leverage high quality Norwegian register data to examine the labour market outcomes of expanding access to adult workers and exploit a large policy reform which greatly enabled access to high...

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Fast Times at Ridgemont High? : The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Births

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2004

their children. We know that low-educated women are more likely to have a teenage birth, but does this imply that policies …

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Under pressure? The effect of peers on outcomes of young adults

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2010

A variety of public campaigns, including the Just Say No campaign of the 1980s and 1990s that encouraged teenagers to Just Say No to Drugs, are based on the premise that teenagers are very susceptible to peer influences. Despite this, very little is known about the effect of school peers on the...

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The Neighbourhood Is Not What It Used to Be

Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - 2003

. Neighbourhoods are less important than families, as the correlations among siblings are significantly higher than among children …

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