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Sitting Next to a Dropout : Academic Success of Students with More Educated Peers

Goller, Daniel; Diem, Andrea; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022

We investigate the impact of the presence of university dropouts on the academic success of first-time students. Our … of dropouts on first- time students' success masks treatment heterogeneity and non-linearities. First, we find negative …

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Dynamic Skill Accumulation, Education Policies and the Return to Schooling

Belzil, Christian - 2017

Using a dynamic skill accumulation model of schooling and labor supply with learning-by-doing, we decompose early life-cycle wage growth of U.S. white males into four main sources: education, hours worked, cognitive skills (AFQT scores) and unobserved heterogeneity, and evaluate the effect of...

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Dynamic Skill Accumulation, Comparative Advantages, Compulsory Schooling, and Earnings

Belzil, Christian - 2011

We show that a calibrated dynamic skill accumulation model allowing for comparative advantages, can explain the weak (or negative) effects of schooling on productivity that have been recently reported (i) in the micro literature on compulsory schooling, ii) in the micro literature on estimating...

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The Timing of Earnings Sampling Over the Life-Cycle and IV Identification of the Return to Schooling

Belzil, Christian - 2012

We show that within a life-cycle skill accumulation model, IV identification of the return to schooling parameter is either achieved at any point in the life-cycle where the level of skills accumulated beyond school completion for compliers is exactly equal to the post-schooling skill level of...

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A Structural Analysis of the Correlated Random Coefficient Wage Regression Model with an Application to the Ols-Iv Puzzle

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jorgen - 2021

We estimate a finite mixture dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the log wage regression function is set within a correlated random coefficient model and we use the structural estimates to perform counterfactual experiments. We show that the estimates of the dynamic...

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Earnings Dispersion, Risk Aversion and Education

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jorgen - 2021

We estimate a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the degree of risk aversion can be inferred from schooling decisions. In our model, individuals are heterogeneous with respect to school and market abilities but homogeneous with respect to the degree of risk aversion. We...

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"The Double Dividend of Training" - Labor Market Effects of Work-Related Continuous Education in Switzerland

Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022

This paper presents the first longitudinal estimates of the effect of work-related training on labor market outcomes in Switzerland. Using a novel dataset that links official census data on adult education to longitudinal register data on labor market outcomes, we apply a regression-adjusted...

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Effects of Adult Education Vouchers on the Labor Market : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Woessmann, Ludger; … - 2021

Lifelong learning is often promoted in ageing societies, but little is known about its returns or governments’ ability to advance it. This paper evaluates the effects of a large-scale randomized field experiment issuing vouchers for adult education in Switzerland. We find no significant...

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Effects of Adult Education Vouchers on the Labor Market : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Schwerdt, Guido - 2011

Lifelong learning is often promoted in ageing societies, but little is known about its returns or governments' ability to advance it. This paper evaluates the effects of a large-scale randomized field experiment issuing vouchers for adult education in Switzerland. We find no significant average...

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A Structural Model of Educational Attainment in Canada

Hansen, Jorgen - 2013

benefits from investing in education. The results suggest that the effect of an increase in parental income on educational … attainment is modest. For example, a 25 percent increase in parental income is predicted to increase post-secondary education … (PSE) attendance by one percent only. However, our results indicate that financial resources, other than parental income …

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