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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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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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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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to a proliferation of financial aid policy in the U.S. and around the world. More students are receiving more aid today … outside the U.S. on the causal impact of a variety of financial aid policies and programs on students' college decisions …
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grades. Test score benefits accrue primarily to students from higher-income families, though students with lower family … income or lower prior performance still benefit. Our results suggest that student assignment policies that relocate students … to avoid the over-concentration of lower-achieving students or those from lower-income families can accomplish equity …
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addressing unobserved residence-country features, we find similar results when assigning migrant students their country …
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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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within-school differences between black and white students. Further, the consequences for achievement of attending a high …
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Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary …
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