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Assessing the effect of schooling on earnings using a social experiment
Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten - 1999
The impact of compulsory schooling laws as well as the abolition of early selection by ability remain important issues in the educational debate. These issues were the focus of a major education reform in Sweden which was implemented in the 60s. The reform was preceded by a social experiment in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011537552
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Returns to skills around the world : evidence from PIAAC ; conference paper
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010484467
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Ability, parental background and education policy : empirical evidence from a social experiment
Meghir, Costas (contributor); Palme, Mårten (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001751919
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Educational reform, ability and family background
Meghir, Costas (contributor); Palme, Mårten (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002050758
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Education, earnings, and inequality in Brazil, 1982 - 98 : implications for education policy
Blom, Andreas; Holm-Nielsen, Lauritz; Verner, Dorte - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001624816
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The effect of a social experiment in education
Meghir, Costas (contributor); Palme, Mårten (contributor) - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001580246
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Growth, distance to frontier and composition of human capital
Vandenbussche, Jérôme (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002472979
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The effect of a social experiment in education
Meghir, Costas (contributor); Palme, Mårten (contributor) - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]
The impact of compulsory schooling laws as well as the abolition of early selection by ability remain important issues in the educational debate. These issues were the focus of a major education reform in Sweden which was implemented in the 60s. The reform was preceded by a ``social experiment''...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001600079
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008653555
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Average and marginal returns to upper secondary schooling in Indonesia
Carneiro, Pedro; Lokshin, Michael; Ridao-Cano, Cristóbal; … - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009487500