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Effects of Adult Education Vouchers on the Labor Market : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Schwerdt, Guido - 2011
Lifelong learning is often promoted in ageing societies, but little is known about its returns or governments' ability to advance it. This paper evaluates the effects of a large-scale randomized field experiment issuing vouchers for adult education in Switzerland. We find no significant average...
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Central School Exit Exams and Labor-Market Outcomes
Piopiunik, Marc - 2012
positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on university-bound students shows no effects on … subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market effects may be more imminent for students leaving school directly for the labor … that central exams are indeed associated with higher earnings for students from school types directly bound for the labor …
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Returns to Skills Around the World : Evidence from Piaac
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2014
Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...
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Coping with Change : International Differences in the Returns to Skills
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2016
Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have...
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The Effects of Test-Based Retention on Student Outcomes Over Time : Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Florida
Schwerdt, Guido - 2013
A growing number of American states require that students who do not demonstrate basic reading proficiency at the end …
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Does Early Educational Tracking Increase Migrant-Native Achievement Gaps? Differences-in-Differences Evidence Across Countries
Ruhose, Jens - 2015
We study whether early tracking of students based on ability increases migrant-native achievement gaps. To eliminate …
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