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School tenure and student achievement
Fan, Wen - 2011
one student has been in a given school. I examine whether and how school tenure impacts students' output using rich cohort … data on England's secondary schools. Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) estimates suggest that, on average, students benefit from … (TSLS) estimates suggest the effects of school tenure are positive and heterogeneous across students. While advantaged …
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Estimating the return to college in Britain using regression and propensity score matching
Fan, Wen - 2011
College graduates tend to earn more than non-graduates but it is difficult to ascertain how much of this empirical association between wages and college degree is due to the causal effect of a college degree and how much is due to unobserved factors that influence both wages and education (e.g....
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Earnings returns to the British education expansion
Devereux, Paul J.; Fan, Wen - 2011
We study the effects of the large expansion in British educational attainment that took place for cohorts born between 1970 and 1975. Using the Quarterly Labour Force Survey, we find that the expansion caused men to increase education by about a year on average and gain about 8% higher wages;...
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