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The Effect of Education Policy on Crime : An Intergenerational Perspective

Meghir, Costas - 2011

. We then show that the benefits extended to the next generation with large reductions in the crime rates of the children …

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Where Do Stem Graduates Stem from? The Intergenerational Transmission of Comparative Skill Advantages

Hanushek, Eric A.; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; … - 2023

comparative advantages in math of parents are significantly linked to those of their children. A causal interpretation follows … quality. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields …

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Formation of the legacy of slavery : evidence from the US South

Jung, Yeonha - In: European economic review : EER 154 (2023), pp. 1-22

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Coping with Change : International Differences in the Returns to Skills

Hanushek, Eric A. - 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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International Emigrant Selection on Occupational Skills

Patt, Alexander - 2017

We present the first evidence that international emigrant selection on education and earnings materializes through occupational skills. Combining novel data from a representative Mexican task survey with rich individual-level worker data, we find that Mexican migrants to the United States have...

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Returns to skills around the world : evidence from PIAAC

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - In: European economic review : EER 73 (2014), pp. 103-130

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Subsidizing Vocational Training for Disadvantaged Youth in Developing Countries : Evidence from a Randomized Trial

Attanasio, Orazio - 2009

This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005. This randomized trial offers a unique opportunity to examine the impact of training in developing countries. We use originally collected data on individuals randomly offered...

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Returns to Skills Around the World : Evidence from Piaac

Hanushek, Eric A. - 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...

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The value of smarter teachers : international evidence on teacher cognitive skills and student performance

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Piopiunik, Marc; Wiederhold, Simon - 2014

Differences in teacher quality are commonly cited as a key determinant of the huge international student performance gaps. However, convincing evidence on this relationship is still lacking, in part because it is unclear how to measure teacher quality consistently across countries. We use unique...

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Resources and Standards in Urban Schools

Machin, Stephen J.; McNally, Sandra; Meghir, Costas - 2021

impact has been in more disadvantaged schools and on the performance of middle and high ability students within these schools … resources can matter for children in the poorest secondary schools, particularly when building on a solid educational or ability … background. However, small changes in resources have little or no effect on the "hard to reach" children who have not achieved a …

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