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Skills, parental sorting, and child inequality
Nybom, Martin; Plug, Erik J. S.; Klaauw, Bas van der; … - 2023
to stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children …. Swedish data show that in the second half of the 20th century more skilled students increasingly enrolled in college and ended … up with more skilled partners and more skilled children. Exploiting college expansions, we find that better college …
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Early lead exposure and outcomes in adulthood
Grönqvist, Hans; Nilsson, J. Peter; Robling, Per-Olof - 2017
non-cognitive skills with a novel measure of lead exposure, we follow 800,000 children from birth into adulthood. We find …
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Relative wages and pupil performance, evidence from TIMSS
Fullard, Joshua - 2021
While it is widely established that higher wages attract more productive individuals into teaching, it is unclear if salaries can be used to motivate existing teachers to work harder, or more productively, in any way that affects pupil outcomes. Using teachers' predicted relative wages,...
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School inputs and skills : complementarity and self-productivity
Nicoletti, Cheti; Rabe, Birgitta - 2013 - This version: November 20, 2013
ability is 0.22 and the return to school expenditure is three times higher for students at the top of the past attainment …
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School resources, peer inputs, and student outcomes in adult education
Tilley, J. Lucas - 2023
the academic achievement of adult education students. I analyze the spillover effects of a Swedish policy that temporarily … composition drive my findings. First, I establish that students in regions subject to larger enrollment shocks experienced …
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The impact of students' part-time work on educational outcomes
Rokicka, Magdalena - 2014
This paper addresses the issue of school students' part-time employment in the last year of compulsory education, and …
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Explaining gender gap variation across assessment forms
Graetz, Georg; Karimi, Arizo - 2019
-selection into taking the SAT. Our findings imply large effects of the choice of university admission criterion on admitted students …
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When workers' skills become unbundled : some empirical consequences for sorting and wages
Nordström Skans, Oskar; Choné, Philippe; Kramarz, Francis - 2022
This empirical paper analyzes labor market sorting across establishments using Swedish register data on cognitive and non-cognitive abilities. We draw on the theoretical foundations of Chone' and Kramarz (2021), in which workers are endowed with sets of multidimensional skills that need to be...
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Decentralization of wage determination : evidence from a national teacher reform
Willén, Alexander - 2019
Despite a global trend of wage decentralization over the past 30 years, we know very little about the labor market implications of decentralized wage determination. A main reason is the lack of exogenous variation in wage regulation linked to detailed outcome data. Using Swedish registry data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012028540
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The rising return to non-cognitive skill
Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Nybom, Martin; … - 2018
We examine the changes in the rewards to cognitive and non-cognitive skill during the time period 1992-2013. Using unique administrative data for Sweden, we document a secular increase in the returns to non-cognitive skill. This increase is particularly pronounced in the private sector, at the...
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