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Quality-Consistent Estimates of International Returns to Skill
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2010
Returns to education are traditionally estimated in a Mincer wage equation from the variation in schooling for a cross-section of individuals of different ages. Because individuals receive education at different time periods, when the quality of their education may not be identical, this method...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760565
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Quality-Consistent Estimates of International Returns to Skill
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2006
Returns to education are traditionally estimated in a Mincer wage equation from the variation in schooling for a cross-section of individuals of different ages. Because individuals receive education at different time periods, when the quality of their education may not be identical, this method...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465997
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Does School Accountability Lead to Improved Student Performance?
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2004
The leading school reform policy in the United States revolves around strong accountability of schools with consequences for performance. The federal government's involvement through the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 reinforces the prior movement of many states toward policies based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468102
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Quasi-hyperbolic time preferences and their intergenerational transmission
Kosse, Fabian; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2013
-Hyperbolic Discounting ; Preschool Children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009686465
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Impatience among preschool children and their mothers
Kosse, Fabian; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2012
Using experimental data of children and their mothers, this paper explores the intergenerational relationship of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009424713
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Impatience among preschool children and their mothers
Kosse, Fabian; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2011
Using experimental data of children and their mothers, this paper explores the intergenerational relationship of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009524369
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Quasi-hyperbolic time preferences and their intergenerational transmission
Kosse, Fabian; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2013
-hyperbolic discounting ; preschool children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009716245
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The Economic Value of Higher Teacher Quality
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2010
Most analyses of teacher quality end without any assessment of the economic value of altered teacher quality. This paper combines information about teacher effectiveness with the economic impact of higher achievement. It begins with an overview of what is known about the relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462051
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Formelle und informelle berufliche Weiterbildung und Verdienst bei Arbeitnehmern und Selbständigen
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2000
The paper investigates determinants of formal and non-formal continuous vocational training and its income effects … on income are rather small or equal to zero with the self-employed and rather high among employed workers, both in the … group of trainees and non-trainees. Non-formal training has a non-zero effect on income as well. The determinants of income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428288
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The Economic Value of Higher Teacher Quality
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2010
Most analyses of teacher quality end without any assessment of the economic value of altered teacher quality. This paper combines information about teacher effectiveness with the economic impact of higher achievement. It begins with an overview of what is known about the relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135061