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Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria : Evidence from Failed Firms

Fersterer, Josef - 2007

Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS estimates suggest that the returns are similar to those of other types of schooling. However, there is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and...

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The GED

Heckman, James J. - 2010

induces some students to drop out of school. The GED program is unique to the United States and Canada, but provides policy …

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Comprehensive versus Selective Schooling in England in Wales : What Do We Know?

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2006

with comprehensive schools during the 1960s and 70s. Before the reform, students would take an exam at age eleven, which …-added methodology: they compare outcomes for students passing through either type of school controlling for achievement levels at the … children only enter secondary school at age 11, these effects are likely due to selection bias. Careful choice of treatment and …

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The Non-Market Benefits of Education and Ability

Heckman, James J. - 2017

This paper analyzes the non-market benefits of education and ability. Using a dynamic model of educational choice we estimate returns to education that account for selection bias and sorting on gains. We investigate a range of non-market outcomes including incarceration, mental health, voter...

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Returns to Education : The Causal Effects of Education on Earnings, Health and Smoking

Heckman, James J. - 2016

This paper estimates returns to education using a dynamic model of educational choice that synthesizes approaches in the structural dynamic discrete choice literature with approaches used in the reduced form treatment effect literature. It is an empirically robust middle ground between the two...

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Education, Health and Wages

Heckman, James J. - 2014

This paper develops and estimates a model with multiple schooling choices that identifies the causal effect of different levels of schooling on health, health-related behaviors, and labor market outcomes. We develop an approach that is a halfway house between a reduced form treatment effect...

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The Effects of Advanced Degrees on the Wage Rates, Hours, Earnings and Job Satisfaction of Women and Men

Altonji, Joseph G.; Humphries, John Eric; Zhong, Ling - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper uses a college-by-graduate degree fixed effects estimator to evaluate the returns to 19 different graduate degrees for men and women. We find substantial variation across degrees, and evidence that OLS overestimates the returns to degrees with high average earnings and underestimates...

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Peer Effects in European Primary Schools : Evidence from PIRLS

Ammermueller, Andreas - 2006

We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...

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