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Are School-Provided Skills Useful at Work? Results of the Wiles Test

Liwinski, Jacek - 2017

We test for the signalling hypothesis versus human capital theory using the Wiles test (1974) in a country which has experienced a dramatic increase in the supply of skills. For this purpose, we construct a job match index based on the usefulness of the school-provided skills and the relevance...

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The Narrowing Gap in New York City Teacher Qualifications and its Implications for Student Achievement in High-Poverty Schools

Boyd, Donald - 2008

teachers resulted in average improved achievement for students in the poorest decile of schools of .03 standard deviations …

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Life Cycle Earnings, Education Premiums and Internal Rates of Return

Bhuller, Manudeep - 2014

internal rate of return of around 10 percent, after taking into account income taxes and earnings-related pension entitlements …

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Life Cycle Earnings, Education Premiums and Internal Rates of Return

Bhuller, Manudeep - 2014

internal rate of return of around 10 percent, after taking into account income taxes and earnings-related pension entitlements …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051734

Life Cycle Earnings, Education Premiums and Internal Rates of Return

Bhuller, Manudeep - 2014

internal rate of return of around 10 percent, after taking into account income taxes and earnings-related pension entitlements …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052121

Dynamics of returns to vocational education in China : 2010-2017

Chen, Jie; Pastore, Francesco - 2022

In this paper, we use the Chinese General Social Survey data (2010-2017) to analyse the returns to different education qualifications. We additionally compare the returns to vocational education with returns to academic education, at both the upper secondary level and the tertiary level....

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The Effect of Measured School Inputs on Academic Achievement : Evidence from the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s Birth Cohorts

Loeb, Susanna; Bound, John - 2021

The study presented here uses data from the NORC General Social Surveys to explore the effects of measurable school characteristics on student achievement. What separates this study from many others is the use of aggregate data on older cohorts, usually associated with research on the influence...

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Does Vocational Education Pay Better, or Worse, than Academic Education?

Pastore, Francesco; Chen, Jie - 2021

In this paper, we use the Chinese General Social Survey data to analyse the returns to upper secondary vocational education in China. To address possible endogeneity of vocational training due to omitted heterogeneity, we construct a novel instrumental variable using the proportion of tertiary...

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Effective Schools : Teacher Hiring, Assignment, Development, and Retention

Loeb, Susanna; Kalogrides, Demetra; Beteille, Tara - 2021

outcomes for students. In this paper, we use value-added methods to examine the relationship between a school's effectiveness … systematically recruit more effective teachers; whether they assign teachers to students more effectively; whether they do a better … novice teachers to students in a more equitable fashion. Third, we find that teachers who work in schools that were more …

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"Study Hard and Make Progress Every Day" : Updates on Returns to Education in China

Pastore, Francesco; Chen, Jie - 2021

In this paper, we apply Generalized Propensity Score Matching (GPSM) method, which deals with a continuous treatment variable, to estimate the returns to education in China from 2010 to 2017. Results are compared with OLS estimates from the classical Mincerian equation, as well as estimates from...

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