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Overeducation and mismatch in the labor market

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2011

This paper surveys the economics literature on overeducation. The original motivation to study this topic were reports that the strong increase in the number of college graduates in the early 1970s in the US led to a decrease in the returns to college education. We argue that Duncan and...

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The Effect of Extra Funding for Disadvantaged Pupils on Achievement

Webbink, Dinand; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Lindahl, Mikael; … - 2004

This paper evaluates the effects of two subsidies targeted at disadvantaged pupils in the Netherlands. The first scheme gives primary schools with at least 70 percent minority pupils extra funding for personnel. The second scheme gives primary schools with at least 70 percent pupils from...

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Quasi-experimental estimates of the effect of class size on achievement in Norway

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Rønning, Marte - 2008

Using a comprehensive administrative database we exploit independent quasi-experimental methods to estimate the effect of class size on student achievement in Norway. The first method is based on a maximum class size rule in the spirit Angrist and Lavy (1999). The second method exploits...

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Scale economies can offset the benefits of competition: Evidence from a school consolidation reform in a universal voucher system

de Haan, Monique; Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2011

A large school consolidation reform in the Netherlands changed minimum school size rules underlying public funding. The supply of schools decreased by 15 percent, but this varied considerably across municipalities. We find that reducing the number of schools by 10 percent increases pupils'...

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Using admission lotteries to estimate heterogeneous effects of elite schools

Oosterbeek, Hessel; Ruijs, Nienke; de Wolf, Inge - 2020

negative effects on achievement of students who just qualify for the highest academic track and positive effects on achievement … of students from the top of the baseline ability distribution. These results reconcile contrasting findings from previous …

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The (un)importance of school assignment

Ketel, Nadine; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Sóvágó, Sándor; … - 2023

engagement, having friends, and students' personality. It seems therefore that the concerns that parents of lottery losers …, attitudes towards school, awareness of parents, behavior inside school, behavior outside school, school satisfaction, civic … express about their children's school assignment are based on the characteristics of schools, teachers and peers and not on …

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Long-term effects of class size

Fredriksson, Peter; Öckert, Björn; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2012

This paper evaluates the long-term effects of class size in primary school. We use rich administrative data from Sweden and exploit variation in class size created by a maximum class size rule. Smaller classes in the last three years of primary school (age 10 to 13) are not only beneficial for...

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