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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012665488
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The effect of school quality on educational attainment and wages
Dearden, Lorraine (contributor); Ferri, Javier (contributor) - 2000 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001536306
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Maternal education, home environments and the development of children and adolescents
Carneiro, Pedro (contributor); Meghir, Costas (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003546918
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544331
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Returns to education in the economic transition : a systematic assessment using comparable data
Flabbi, Luca; Paternostro, Stefano; Tiongson, Erwin R. - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003491062
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Economic freedom, human rights, and the returns to human capital : an evaluation of the Schultz hypothesis
King, Elizabeth M.; Montenegro, Claudio; Orazem, Peter F. - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008663988
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Education choices in Mexico : using a structural model and a randomized experiment to evaluate Progresa
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; Santiago, Ana - 2010
that is better suited to evaluate the program. We find that the program has a positive effect on the enrollment of children … neutral change in the program that would increase the grant for secondary school children while eliminating for the primary … school children would have a substantially larger effect on enrollment of the latter, while having minor effects on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008653555
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416403
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235845