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Dynamic Skill Accumulation, Comparative Advantages, Compulsory Schooling, and Earnings
Belzil, Christian - 2011
We show that a calibrated dynamic skill accumulation model allowing for comparative advantages, can explain the weak (or negative) effects of schooling on productivity that have been recently reported (i) in the micro literature on compulsory schooling, ii) in the micro literature on estimating...
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Incentives and Services for College Achievement : Evidence from a Randomized Trial
Angrist, Joshua D.; Lang, Daniel; Oreopoulos, Philip - 2021
Many North American college students have trouble satisfying degree requirements in a timely manner. This paper reports … treatment group combined both interventions. Service take-up rates were much higher for women than for men and for students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316744
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A Structural Analysis of the Correlated Random Coefficient Wage Regression Model with an Application to the Ols-Iv Puzzle
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jorgen - 2021
We estimate a finite mixture dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the log wage regression function is set within a correlated random coefficient model and we use the structural estimates to perform counterfactual experiments. We show that the estimates of the dynamic...
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Earnings Dispersion, Risk Aversion and Education
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jorgen - 2021
We estimate a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the degree of risk aversion can be inferred from schooling decisions. In our model, individuals are heterogeneous with respect to school and market abilities but homogeneous with respect to the degree of risk aversion. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320490
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General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes Over the Life-Cycle
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2011
Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118533
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School Competition and Students' Entrepreneurial Intentions : International Evidence Using Historical Catholic Roots of Private Schooling
Falck, Oliver - 2010
shares, students' academic skills, and parents' entrepreneurial occupation … effect of private-school competition on students' entrepreneurial intentions. We exploit Catholic-Church resistance to state … instrumental-variable results suggest that a 10 percentage-point higher private-school share raises students' entrepreneurial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141425
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A Structural Model of Educational Attainment in Canada
Hansen, Jorgen - 2013
benefits from investing in education. The results suggest that the effect of an increase in parental income on educational … attainment is modest. For example, a 25 percent increase in parental income is predicted to increase post-secondary education … (PSE) attendance by one percent only. However, our results indicate that financial resources, other than parental income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085475
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Culture and Student Achievement : The Intertwined Roles of Patience and Risk-Taking
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2020
addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828604