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Can Patience Account for Subnational Differences in Student Achievement? Regional Analysis with Facebook Interests

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Kinne, Lavinia; Sancassani, Pietro; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Decisions to invest in human capital depend on people's time preferences. We show that differences in patience are closely related to substantial subnational differences in educational achievement, leading to new perspectives on longstanding within-country disparities. We use social-media data -...

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Mosquitoes : The Long-term Effects of Malaria Eradication in India

Cutler, David - 2007

We examine the effects of malaria on educational attainment and income by exploiting geographic variation in malaria … income for prime age men. This finding is robust to using very localized sources of geographic variation and to instrumenting … for pre-eradication prevalence with climate factors. We do not observe improvements in income for women, suggesting that …

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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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When Should Governments Subsidize Health? The Case of Mass Deworming

Ahuja, Amrita - 2015

short run and on academic test scores, employment, and income in the long run, while suggesting that most parents will not …

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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...

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Peer Effects and Alcohol Use Among College Students

Kremer, Michael - 2003

This paper examines a natural experiment in which students at a large state university were randomly assigned roommates … students who drink frequently are particularly influenced by frequent-drinking roommates, substance-free housing programs could … possibly even grows over time. In contrast, students' college GPA is not influenced by roommates' high school grades, admission …

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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 …

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The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2010

An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...

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Does Educational Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences-in-Differences Evidence across Countries

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2005

Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary …

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