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Effects of adult education vouchers on the labor market: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Woessmann, Ludger; … - 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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A case for taxing education
Blumkin, Tomer; Sadka, Efraim - 2005
individuals to acquire education may serve as an additional signal (to earned labor income) on the underlying unobserved innate … education, as a supplement to the labor income tax. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261166
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Children's Patience and School-Track Choices Several Years Later: Linking Experimental and Field Data
Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; … - 2021
We present direct evidence on the link between children’s patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining … an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599197