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The effect of opposite sex siblings on cognitive and noncognitive skills in early childhood

Cyron, Laura; Schwerdt, Guido; Viarengo, Martina - 2016

We investigate the effect of having opposite sex siblings on cognitive and noncognitive skills of children in the … covariates, the sibling sex composition of the two firstborn children in a family is arguably exogenous. With regard to cognitive …

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The effect of opposite sex siblings on cognitive and noncognitive skills in early childhood

Cyron, Laura; Schwerdt, Guido; Viarengo, Martina - In: Applied economics letters 24 (2017) 19, pp. 1369-1373

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The impact of an adult education voucher program : evidence from a randomized field experiment

Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Woessmann, Ludger; … - In: Journal of public economics 96 (2012) 7/8, pp. 569-583

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Returns to skills around the world : evidence from PIAAC ; conference paper

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2014

Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...

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Coping with change : international differences in the returns to skills

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - In: Economics letters 153 (2017), pp. 15-19

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General education, vocational education, and labor-market outcomes over the lifecycle

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger; … - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 52 (2017) 1, pp. 48-87

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Students' performance and behavior in elementary and higher education : three essays in the economics of education

Herber, Stefanie P. - 2016

3 and 4) is concerned with students' behavior towards federal interventions aiming at achieving efficiency and equality … elementary students' performance in international student assessments. Chapter 3 investigates, together with Michael Kalinowski …-time evidence that two fifths of eligible students do not claim their benefits. Chapter 4 contains results from a randomized field …

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The effects of test-based retention on student outcomes over time : regression discontinuity evidence from Florida

Schwerdt, Guido; West, Martin R.; Winters, Marcus A. - 2015

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The effects of test-based retention on student outcomes over time : regression discontinuity evidence from Florida

Schwerdt, Guido; West, Martin R. - 2013

A growing number of American states require that students who do not demonstrate basic reading proficiency at the end …

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Does early educational tracking increase migrant-native achievement gaps? : differences-in-differences evidence across countries

Ruhose, Jens; Schwerdt, Guido - 2015

We study whether early tracking of students based on ability increases migrant-native achievement gaps. To eliminate …

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