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Covid-19 and Educational Inequality : How School Closures Affect Low- and High-Achieving Students

Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2021

-achieving students. The reduction in learning time was not larger for children from lower-educated parents, but it was larger for boys … collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We …

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Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2009

We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking...

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Estimating the social value of higher education : willingness to pay for community and technical colleges

Blomquist, Glenn C.; Coomes, Paul A.; Jepsen, Christopher; … - In: Journal of benefit-cost analysis : JBCA 5 (2014) 1, pp. 3-41

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Do Dutch Dentists Extract Monopoly Rents?

Ketel, Nadine - 2018

We exploit admission lotteries to estimate the payoffs to the dentistry study in the Netherlands. Using data from up to 22 years after the lottery, we find that in most years after graduation dentists earn around 50,000 Euros more than they would earn in their next-best profession. The payoff is...

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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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Field of Study and Family Outcomes

Artmann, Elisabeth - 2018

intergenerational effects on children's education. This means that field of study does not only affect individual labor market outcomes …

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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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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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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 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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