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The intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills: an investigation of the causal impact of families on student outcomes

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; … - 2021

connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields. …

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Maternal education, home environments and the development of children and adolescents

Carneiro, Pedro; Meghir, Costas; Parey, Matthias - 2007

We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems … 1979 (NLSY79) and their children, we can control for mother's ability and family background factors. Our results show … substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate that an additional …

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Intergenerational transmission of education: An alert to empirical implementation

Pereira, Pedro Telhado - 2010

level of education that an individual rises to is linked to the education level(s) of her/his parents. This note serves as … an alert to researchers undertaking empirical investigation into how the parents' education should be considered with … regard to the child's. Using Portuguese data we conclude that the parents should be viewed as a unit (i.e. as a couple), and …

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Coping with change : international differences in the returns to skills

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 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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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2000

We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the...

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Is there a Return-Risk Link in Education?

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2001

Risk averse investors have to be compensated in higher expected returns when facing investments with higher risk. Education is an important investment therefore we use the results for 16 countries to test the positive relationship between return to education and the risk involved in this...

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The effect of education policy on crime: An intergenerational perspective

Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Schnabel, Marieke - 2011

. We then show that the benefits extended to the next generation with large reductions in the crime rates of the children …

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Returns to ICT skills

Oliver, Falck; Heimisch, Alexandra; Wiederhold, Simon - 2016

How important is mastering information and communication technologies (ICT) in modern labor markets? We present the first evidence on this question, drawing on unique data that provide internationally comparable information on ICT skills in 19 countries. Our identification strategy relies on the...

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International emigrant selection on occupational skills

Patt, Alexander; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2017

We present the first evidence that international emigrant selection on education and earnings materializes through occupational skills. Combining novel data from a representative Mexican task survey with rich individual-level worker data, we find that Mexican migrants to the United States have...

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Returns to skills around the world : evidence from PIAAC

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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