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Affirmative action in higher education : how do admission and financial aid rules affect future earnings?
Arcidiacono, Peter - In: Econometrica : journal of the Econometric Society, an … 73 (2005) 5, pp. 1477-1524
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003096707
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The elite illusion : achievement effects at Boston and New York exam schools
Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila; Angrist, Joshua D.; Pathak, Parag A. - 2012
Parents gauge school quality in part by the level of student achievement and a school's racial mix. The importance of … cutoffs for the most selective of these schools move from above-average schools to schools with students drawn from the … extreme upper tail. Exam school students can also expect to study with fewer nonwhite classmates than unsuccessful applicants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580534
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Returns to apprenticeship training in Austria : evidence from failed firms
Fersterer, Josef (contributor);  … - 2007
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/10003561669
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From the cradle to the labor market? : The effect of birth weight on adult outcomes
Black, Sandra E. (contributor);  … - 2005
of children from poorer families. -- birth weight ; twins ; education ; IQ ; earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003291737
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A second chance? : labor market returns to adult education using school reforms
Bennett, Patrick; Blundell, Richard W.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2020
Roughly one third of a cohort drop out of high school across OECD countries, and developing effective tools to address prime-aged high school dropouts is a key policy question. We leverage high quality Norwegian register data, and for identification we exploit reforms enabling access to high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012266277
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Recovering ex ante returns and preferences for occupations using subjective expectations data
Arcidiacono, Peter; Hotz, Vincent Joseph; Maurel, Arnaud; … - 2014
We show that data on subjective expectations, especially on outcomes from counterfactual choices and choice probabilities, are a powerful tool in recovering ex ante treatment effects as well as preferences for different treatments. In this paper we focus on the choice of occupation, and use...
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Research design meets market design : using centralized assignment for impact evaluation
Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila; Angrist, Joshua D.; Narita, Yusuke - In: Econometrica : journal of the Econometric Society, an … 85 (2017) 5, pp. 1373-1432
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011791277
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Continuous training in Germany
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2000
Using data from the German Socio Economic Panel, I analyze the incidence, financing, and returns to workplace training in Germany for the years 1986 to 1989. Much of this training seems general, and is provided to workers by their employer at no direct cost. While workers typically report larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325982
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Instrumental variables estimates of the effect of subsidized training on the quantiles of trainee earnings
Abadie, Alberto; Angrist, Joshua D.; Imbens, Guido - In: Econometrica : journal of the Econometric Society, an … 70 (2002) 1, pp. 91-117
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001647793
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Measuring heterogeneity in the returns to education in Norway using educational reforms
Aakvik, Arild (contributor); Salvanes, Kjell G. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001775719