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The Effect of Education Policy on Crime : An Intergenerational Perspective
Meghir, Costas - 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 apprenticeship training in Austria : evidence from failed firms
Fersterer, Josef (contributor);  … - 2008
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Inference for ranks with applications to mobility across neighborhoods and academic achievement across countries
Mogstad, Magne; Romano, Joseph P.; Shaikh, Azeem M.; … - 2021
It is often desired to rank different populations according to the value of some feature of each population. For example, it may be desired to rank neighborhoods according to some measure of intergenerational mobility or countries according to some measure of academic achievement. These rankings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012500502
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Inference for ranks with applications to mobility across neighborhoods and academic achievement across countries
Mogstad, Magne; Romano, Joseph P.; Shaikh, Azeem M.; … - 2022
It is often desired to rank different populations according to the value of some feature of each population. For example, it may be desired to rank neighborhoods according to some measure of intergenerational mobility or countries according to some measure of academic achievement. These rankings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012813620
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Inference for ranks with applications to mobility across neighborhoods and academic achievement across countries
Mogstad, Magne; Romano, Joseph P.; Wilhelm, Daniel; … - 2020
It is often desired to rank different populations according to the value of some feature of each population. For example, it may be desired to rank neighborhoods according to some measure of intergenerational mobility or countries according to some measure of academic achievement. These rankings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180493
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Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria : Evidence from Failed Firms
Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, … - 2021
Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. There is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and there might be an important element of selection in who obtains an apprenticeship, and what type. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316777
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Inference for ranks with applications to mobility across neighborhoods and academic achievement across countries
Mogstad, Magne; Romano, Joseph P.; Shaikh, Azeem M.; … - 2023
It is often desired to rank different populations according to the value of some feature of each population. For example, it may be desired to rank neighborhoods according to some measure of intergenerational mobility or countries according to some measure of academic achievement. These rankings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013500955
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Development dynamics : economic integration and the demograpic transition
McDermott, John Harvey - In: Journal of economic growth 7 (2002) 4, pp. 371-409
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001718016
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Who Benefits from Kipp?
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2011
at the expense of students who are most diffiult to teach, including limited English proficiency (LEP) and special … education (SPED) students, as well as students with low baseline achievement levels. We use applicant lotteries to evaluate the … special needs students that may be underserved. The results show average achievement gains of 0.36 standard deviations in math …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125146
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Education, Health and Mortality : Evidence from a Social Experiment
Meghir, Costas - 2012
We study the effect of a compulsory education reform in Sweden on adult health and mortality. The reform was implemented by municipalities between 1949 and 1962 as a social experiment and implied an extension of compulsory schooling from 7 or 8 years depending on municipality to 9 years...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107708