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Does Money Buy Higher Schooling? Evidence from Secondary School Track Choice in Germany

Tamm, Marcus - 2007

The German schooling system selects children into different secondary school tracks already at a very early stage in … secondary schooling achievements display a strong correlation with parental income.We use sibling fixed effects models and … information on a natural experiment in order to analyze whether this correlation is due to a causal effect of income or due to …

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Rates of return to schooling and the quality of education in England and Wales

Campbell, David - 2001

Raising the quality of education has been one of the main objectives of the current government in Britain. By devoting more resources to the education sector, it is expected that pupils will achieve higher educational attainment by the time their years of compulsory schooling ends. This study...

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Uncertain returns and children's schooling in Tanzania

Lilleør, Helene Bie - 2008

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Intergenerational Schooling Mobility and Macro Conditions and Schooling Policies in Latin America

Birdsall, Nancy; Behrman, Jere R.; Székely, Miguel - 1998

. The region continues to have relatively great income inequalities. Two different societies with the same income …

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Africa's education enigma? The Nigerian story

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2007

In the last two decades, the social and economic benefits of formal education in Sub-Saharan Africa have been debated. Anecdotal evidence points to low returns to education in Africa. Unfortunately, there is limited econometric evidence to support these claims at the micro level. In this study,...

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The GED

Heckman, James Joseph; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, … - 2010

induces some students to drop out of school. The GED program is unique to the United States and Canada, but provides policy …

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What determines the return to education: An extra year or a hurdle cleared?

Dickson, Matt; Smith, Sarah - 2011

The 1973 Raising of the School Leaving Age in England and Wales has been used to identify returns to years' schooling. However, the reform affected the proportion with qualifications, as well as schooling length. To shed light on whether the returns reflect extra schooling or qualifications, we...

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Noncognitive skills, school achievements and educational dropout

Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - 2009

We analyse the determinants of dropout from secondary and vocational education in Germany using data from the Socio-Economic Panel from 2000 to 2007. In addition to the role of classical variables like family background and school achievements, we examine the effect of noncognitive skills. Both,...

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School Quality and Family Background in Italy

Brunello, Giorgio; Checchi, Daniele - 2003

We study if the combined significant reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio and increase in parental education observed in Italy between the end of IIWW and the end of 1980s had a significant impact on the educational attainment and labor market returns of a representative sample of Italians born...

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Noncognitive Skills, School Achievements and Educational Dropout (Revised Version)

Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - 2010

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