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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/10012519178
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Children's patience and schooltrack 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/10012584079
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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/10012591184
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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/10012533965
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Children's patience and school-track choices several years later : linking experimental and field data
Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; … - In: Journal of public economics 220 (2023), pp. 1-10
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014301778
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Does School Accountability Lead to Improved Student Performance?
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2004
The leading school reform policy in the United States revolves around strong accountability of schools with consequences for performance. The federal government's involvement through the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 reinforces the prior movement of many states toward policies based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468102
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Earnings risk and demand for higher education
Hartog, Joop; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2002
We develop a simple human capital model for optimum schooling length when earnings are stochastic, and highlight the pivotal role of risk attitudes and the schooling gradient of earnings risk. We use Spanish data to document the gradient and to estimate individual response to earnings risk in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011327826
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Do wage expectations influence the decision to enroll in nursing college?
Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop - 2015
As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage …. This suggests that policies that increase returns from studying nursing can attract students to nursing. In addition, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283119
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The effects of home computers on educational outcomes : evidence from a field experiment with community college students
Fairlie, Robert W.; London, Rebecca A. - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 122 (2012) 561, pp. 727-753
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009669615
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The effects of home computers on educational outcomes : evidence from a field experiment with community college students
Fairlie, Robert W.; London, Rebecca A. - 2013
first-ever field experiment involving the provision of free computers to students for home use. Financial aid students … not large. We also provide some evidence that students initially living farther from campus benefit more from the free … computers than students living closer to campus. Home computers appear to improve students ́computer skills and may increase the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223045