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When Opportunity Knocks, Who Answers? New Evidence on College Achievement Awards
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2010
We evaluate the effects of academic achievement awards for first and second-year college students on a Canadian … 70 for second-year students, but there was no significant effect on overall GPA. Results are somewhat stronger for a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134842
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The economics of over- and underschooling : special issue
Oosterbeek, Hessel (contributor) - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001467773
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Estimating average and local average treatment effects of education when compulsory schooling laws really matter
Oreopoulos, Philip - In: The American economic review 96 (2006) 1, pp. 152-175
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Long-term effects of school-starting-age rules
Oosterbeek, Hessel; Meulen, Simon ter; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2020
birth month threshold used in the Netherlands. We find that students born just after the threshold perform better at the end … of primary school than students born just before it. This translates into increased placement in high ability tracks in … not harm long-term outcomes of children who were, for exogenous reasons, placed in a lower track. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295206
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Heterogeneous effects of comprehensive vs. single-track academic schools : evidence from admission lotteries
Oosterbeek, Hessel; Ruijs, Nienke; Wolf, Inge de - In: Economics of education review 93 (2023), pp. 1-20
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Long-term effects of school-starting-age rules
Oosterbeek, Hessel; Meulen, Simon ter; Klaauw, Bas van der - In: Economics of education review 84 (2021), pp. 1-15
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Do Dutch dentists extract monopoly rents?
Ketel, Nadine; Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; … - 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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Field of study and family outcomes
Artmann, Elisabeth; Ketel, Nadine; Oosterbeek, Hessel; … - 2018
intergenerational effects on children's education. This means that field of study does not only affect individual labor market outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011881367
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A new approach to estimate the wage returns to work-related training
Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2002
This paper proposes a new approach to identify the wage effects of training. The idea is to narrow down the comparison group by only taking into consideration the workers who wanted to participate in training but did not do so because of some random event. The point estimate of the return to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412041
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The returns to medical school : evidence from admission lotters
Ketel, Nadine; Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; … - In: American economic journal : a journal of the American … 8 (2016) 2, pp. 225-254
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