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Where Do STEM Graduates Stem From? The Intergenerational Transmission of Comparative Skill Advantages
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
comparative advantages in math of parents are significantly linked to those of their children. A causal interpretation follows … quality. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields …
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Ramadan intensity and subsequent student achievement
Hornung, Erik; Schwerdt, Guido; Strazzeri, Maurizio - 2022
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Do international study programmes pay off for local students?
Wang, Zhiling; Pastore, Francesco; Karreman, Bas; Oort, … - 2021 - Draft version: May 2021
students' job prospects, especially in a non-English speaking countries. Using rich administrative data from Statistics … addresses the self-selection issue by generating a matched sample of students with similar characteristics. We find that …
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Do international study programmes pay off for local students?
Wang, Zhiling; Pastore, Francesco; Karreman, Bas; Oort, … - 2021
students' job prospects, especially in a non-English speaking countries. Using rich administrative data from Statistics … addresses the self-selection issue by generating a matched sample of students with similar characteristics. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518148
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The effect of opposite sex siblings on cognitive and noncognitive skills in early childhood
Cyron, Laura; Schwerdt, Guido; Viarengo, Martina - 2016
We investigate the effect of having opposite sex siblings on cognitive and noncognitive skills of children in the … covariates, the sibling sex composition of the two firstborn children in a family is arguably exogenous. With regard to cognitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011576852
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The effect of opposite sex siblings on cognitive and noncognitive skills in early childhood
Cyron, Laura; Schwerdt, Guido; Viarengo, Martina - In: Applied economics letters 24 (2017) 19, pp. 1369-1373
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The Effect of Opposite Sex Siblings on Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills in Early Childhood
Cyron, Laura - 2017
We investigate the effect of having opposite sex siblings on cognitive and noncognitive skills of children in the … covariates, the sibling sex composition of the two firstborn children in a family is arguably exogenous. With regard to cognitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966412
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Coping with change : international differences in the returns to skills
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543634
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Coping with change : international differences in the returns to skills
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544331
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Updates on returns to education in India : analysis using PLFS 2018-19 data
Chen, Jie; Kanjilal-Bhaduri, Sanghamitra; Pastore, Francesco - 2022
in other lowmiddle- income countries, especially in rural areas, it is important to increase primary and secondary level …
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