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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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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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Returns to Skills Around the World : Evidence from PIAAC

Hanushek, Eric A. - 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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Returns to Education in the Economic Transition : A Systematic Assessment Using Comparable Data

Flabbi, Luca - 2016

This paper examines the assertion that returns to schooling increase as an economy transitions to a market environment. This claim has been difficult to assess as existing empirical evidence covers only a few countries over short time periods. A number of studies find that returns to education...

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Who Leaves? Teacher Attrition and Student Achievement

Boyd, Donald; Grossman, Pamela; Lankford, Hamilton; … - 2022

, while less effective transfers stay in lower-performing schools, likely exacerbating the differences across students in 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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A primer on human capital

Flabbi, Luca; Gatti, Roberta - 2018

human capital and income growth. Rather than completeness, the objective of this work is to distill some of the most … (sections 2, 3 and 4). The note then reviews the micro empirical literature estimating labor income returns of human capital …

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Can mentoring alleviate family disadvantage in adolescence? : a field experiment to improve labor-market prospects

Resnjanskij, Sven; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2021

. The results show that substituting lacking family support by other adults can help disadvantaged children at adolescent …

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Coping with Change : International Differences in the Returns to Skills

Hanushek, Eric A. - 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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The value of early-career skills

Langer, Christina; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023

We develop novel measures of early-career skills that are more detailed, comprehensive, and labor-market-relevant than existing skill proxies. We exploit that skill requirements of apprenticeships in Germany are codified in state-approved, nationally standardized apprenticeship plans. These...

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