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Engaging girls in math : the unequal effects of text messaging to help parents support early math development
Doss, Christopher; Fricke, Hans; Loeb, Susanna; … - In: Economics of education review 88 (2022), pp. 1-18
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013279335
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The returns to observable and unobservable skills over time : evidence from a panel of the population of Danish twins
Bingley, Paul; Christensen, Kaare; Walker, Ian - 2007
This paper provides estimates of the private financial return to education based on large samples of monozygotic (MZ) and dizygotic (DZ) twins which we obtain from Danish population registers. Our estimation exploits the fact that our data is a long panel. We show that the rising inequality,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003869818
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Mothers working during preschool years and child skills : does income compensate?
Nicoletti, Cheti; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Tominey, Emma - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012202079
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Mothers working during preschool years and child skills : does income compensate?
Salvanes, Kjell G.; Tominey, Emma; Nicoletti, Cheti - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219893
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Mothers working during preschool years and child skills : does income compensate?
Nicoletti, Cheti; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Tominey, Emma - 2020
negative direct effect on mid-childhood and teenage outcomes. But as mothers' work hours increase, income will rise. We ask … whether income can compensate for the negative effect of hours by adopting a novel mediation analysis that exploits exogenous … variation in both mothers' hours and family income in pre-school years. As expected we find a negative direct effect of an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012194583
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The college wage premium and the expansion of higher education in the UK
Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 110 (2008) 4, pp. 695-709
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The college wage premium and the expansion of higher education in the UK
Walker, Ian (contributor); Zhu, Yu (contributor) - 2008
This paper reports estimates of the UK “college premium” for young graduates across successive cohorts from large cross section datasets for the UK pooled from 1994 to 2006 - a period when the higher education participation rate increased dramatically. This implies that graduate supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003770228
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The college wage premium and the expansion of higher education in the UK
Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2008
This paper reports estimates of the UK college premiumʺ for young graduates across successive cohorts from large cross section datasets for the UK pooled from 1994 to 2006 - a period when the higher education participation rate increased dramatically. The growth in relative labour demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003870319
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The college wage premium, overeducation, and the expansion of higher education in the UK
Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2007
This paper provides findings from the UK Labour Force Surveys from 1993 to 2003 on the financial private returns to a degree – the “college premium”. The data covers a decade when the university participation rate doubled – yet we find no significant evidence that the mean return to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008806866
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The college wage premium, overeducation, and the expansion of higher education in the UK
Walker, Ian (contributor); Zhu, Yu (contributor) - 2005
This paper provides findings from the UK Labour Force Surveys from 1996 to 2003 on the financial private returns to a degree the "college premium". The data covers a decade when the university participation rate doubled yet we find no significant evidence that the mean return to a degree dropped...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002881213