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Labour market mismatch among UK graduates : an analysis using REFLEX data

McGuinness, Séamus; Sloane, Peter J. - 2009

There is much disagreement in the literature over the extent to which graduates are mismatched in the labour market and the reasons for this. In this paper we utilise the Flexible Professional in the Knowledge Society (REFLEX) data set to cast light on these issues, based on data for UK...

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Risk-adjusted returns to education

Delaney, Judith - 2019

This paper looks at the joint impact of labour market risk and selection in to the labour market on returns to education. Accounting for non-employment risk leads to substantial changes in returns while wage risk has little impact. The risk- adjusted returns to both high school and college for...

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Math matters! : the importance of mathematical and verbal skills for degree performance

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2019

We find that mathematics skills have a stronger relationship to university performance than verbal skills. While both are predictive of degree completion and class of degree obtained, mathematics skills have a larger effect, and are particularly predictive of achieving a first-class honours...

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Choosing differently? : college application behavior and the persistence of educational advantage

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2020

We use administrative data from Ireland to study differences in college application behavior between students from … completely on grades in the terminal high school examinations. Thus, we can compare the application choices of students who have … equal chances of admission to college programs. Conditional on achievement and college opportunities, we find that students …

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Gender differences in college applications: aspiration and risk management

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2020

examine how the college choices of equally achieving students differ by gender. We find that female students better balance … differences in risk management are concentrated amongst high achieving students. …

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Education, health and wages

Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Veramendi, Gregory - 2014

This paper develops and estimates a model with multiple schooling choices that identifies the causal effect of different levels of schooling on health, health-related behaviors, and labor market outcomes. We develop an approach that is a halfway house between a reduced form treatment effect...

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The effect of schooling and ability on achievement test scores

Hansen, Karsten T. (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Rank effects in education : what do we know so far?

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2022

school or college on subsequent outcomes of students. We review this recent literature, describing the difficult … for ability or achievement and across a range of countries, ages, and types of educational institutions, students that are … into other educational phenomena such as the extent to which students benefit from high ability peers and the presence of a …

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What grades and achievement tests measure

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Heckman, James J.; … - 2016

Intelligence quotient (IQ), grades, and scores on achievement tests are widely used as measures of cognition, yet the correlations among them are far from perfect. This paper uses a variety of data sets to show that personality and IQ predict grades and scores on achievement tests. Personality...

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Evaluation of the reggio approach to early education

Biroli, Pietro; Del Boca, Daniela; Heckman, James J.; … - 2017

We evaluate the Reggio Approach using non-experimental data on individuals from the cities of Reggio Emilia, Parma and Padova belonging to one of five age cohorts: ages 50, 40, 30, 18, and 6 as of 2012. The treated were exposed to municipally offered infant-toddler (ages 0–3) and preschool...

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