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Effects of Adult Education Vouchers on the Labor Market : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Schwerdt, Guido - 2011

Lifelong learning is often promoted in ageing societies, but little is known about its returns or governments' ability to advance it. This paper evaluates the effects of a large-scale randomized field experiment issuing vouchers for adult education in Switzerland. We find no significant average...

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The Labor-Market Returns to Community College Degrees, Diplomas, and Certificates

Jepsen, Christopher - 2012

data from Kentucky, we estimate panel-data models that control for differences among students in pre-college earnings and …

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Central School Exit Exams and Labor-Market Outcomes

Piopiunik, Marc - 2012

positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on university-bound students shows no effects on … subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market effects may be more imminent for students leaving school directly for the labor … that central exams are indeed associated with higher earnings for students from school types directly bound for the labor …

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Labor-Market Returns to the GED Using Regression Discontinuity Analysis

Jepsen, Christopher - 2012

We evaluate the labor-market returns to General Educational Development (GED) certification using state administrative data. We develop a fuzzy regression discontinuity (FRD) method to account for the fact that GED test takers can repeatedly retake the test until they pass it. Our technique can...

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Back to School? Labor-Market Returns to Vocational Postsecondary Education

Bockerman, Petri - 2015

Outside the U.S., little is known about the labor-market returns to vocational (or polytechnic) postsecondary education. This paper focuses on the labor-market returns to polytechnic bachelor's degrees in Finland. Using detailed administrative data, we estimate person fixed effect models to...

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The Benefits of Alternatives to Conventional College : Labor-Market Returns to Proprietary Schooling

Jepsen, Christopher - 2016

for nearly 70,000 students. Because average age at school entry is 30 years of age, and because we have earnings data for …

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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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Second chance for high school dropouts? : a regression discontinuity analysis of postsecondary educational returns to the GED

Jepsen, Christopher; Mueser, Peter R.; Troske, Kenneth R. - 2017

We evaluate the educational returns to General Educational Development (GED) certification using state administrative data. We use fuzzy regression discontinuity (FRD) methods to account for the fact that GED test takers can repeatedly retake the test until they pass it and the fact that test...

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Labor-Market Returns to Higher Vocational Schooling

Bockerman, Petri - 2018

's degrees. We use individual fixed effects models on the matched sample of students and non-students from Finland to capture any …

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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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