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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. …

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Promoting parental involvement in schools : evidence from two randomized experiments

Barrera, Felipe; Gertler, Paul J.; Nakajima, Nozomi; … - 2020

experiment provided information to parents about how to support their children's learning. Overall, the interventions induced …Parental involvement programs aim to increase school-and-parent communication and support children's overall learning … effects among indigenous parents who have historically been discriminated and socially excluded - and improved student …

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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...

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The changing pattern of returns to education : what impact will this have on inequality?

Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2019

The pattern of economic rates of return to investments in education can help us to understand the benefits of schooling. It was common knowledge that the returns to education were highest for the primary level of education and lower for subsequent levels. Recent evidence suggests that the...

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Returns to education in Azerbaijan : some new estimates

Garcia Moreno, Vicente; Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2020

This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Azerbaijan, using the 2015 Azerbaijan Monitoring Survey for Social Welfare. The private rate of return to education is 6 percent; this is the first estimate of returns to schooling in Azerbaijan since 1995. The returns...

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Returns to investment in education : the case of Turkey

Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Psacharopoulos, George; … - 2019

and a social return of 10 percent. Using the number of children younger than age 15 in the household as an exclusion …

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Returns to education in the Russian Federation : some new estimates

Melianova, Ekaterina; Parandekar, Suhas; Patrinos, … - 2020

This paper presents new estimates of the returns to education in the Russian Federation using data from 1994 to 2018. Although the returns to schooling increased for a time, they are now much lower than the global average. Private returns to education are three times greater for higher education...

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Education and earnings in a transition economy : (Vietnam)

Moock, Peter R.; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Venkataraman, … - 1998

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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...

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Functional literacy, heterogeneity and the returns to schooling : multi-country evidence

Fasih, Tazeen; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Sakellariou, … - 2013

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