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Growth, distance to frontier and composition of human capital

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Stepping Stones : Principal Career Paths and School Outcomes

Beteille, Tara - 2011

to work in schools with higher achieving students from more advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds. Principals often use … schools with many poor or low-achieving students as stepping stones to what they view as more desirable assignments. We use …

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Career Progression, Economic Downturns, and Skills

Adda, Jerome - 2013

This paper analyzes the career progression of skilled and unskilled workers, with a focus on how careers are affected by economic downturns and whether formal skills, acquired early on, can shield workers from the effect of recessions. Using detailed administrative data for Germany for numerous...

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Returns to Skills Around the World : Evidence from PIAAC

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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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The Effect of Measured School Inputs on Academic Achievement : Evidence from the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s Birth Cohorts

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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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Education choices in Mexico : using a structural model and a randomized experiment to evaluate Progresa

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; Santiago, Ana - 2010

that is better suited to evaluate the program. We find that the program has a positive effect on the enrollment of children … neutral change in the program that would increase the grant for secondary school children while eliminating for the primary … school children would have a substantially larger effect on enrollment of the latter, while having minor effects on the …

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Average and marginal returns to upper secondary schooling in Indonesia

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Career progression, economic downturns, and skills

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Meghir, Costas; … - 2013

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