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Structural estimates of the intergenerational education correlation

Belzil, Christian (contributor); Hansen, Jörgen (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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School quality and family background in Italy

Brunello, Giorgio; Checchi, Daniele - 2003

We study if the combined significant reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio and increase in parental education observed in Italy between the end of IIWW and the end of 1980s had a significant impact on the educational attainment and labor market returns of a representative sample of Italians born...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011589663

School quality and family background in Italy

Brunello, Giorgio; Checchi, Daniele - 2003

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001743052

School quality and family background in Italy

Brunello, Giorgio (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

We study whether the combined significant reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio and increase in parental education observed in Italy between the end of World War II and the end of the 1980s have had a significant impact on the educational attainment and the labor market returns of a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001745326

The effects of schooling on cognitive skills : evidence from education expansions

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Checchi, Daniele; Ovidi, Marco - 2023

We quantify the causal effect of schooling on cognitive skills across 21 countries and the full distribution of working-age individuals. We exploit exogenous variation in educational attainment induced by a broad set of institutional reforms affecting different cohorts of individuals in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013499579

The effects of schooling on cognitive skills : evidence from education expansions

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Checchi, Daniele; Ovidi, Marco - 2022

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013467048

Re-testing PISA students one year later : on school value added estimation using OECD-PISA

Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele - 2013

autonomous province of Trento) the PISA 2009 test was re-administered to the same students one year later. This paper is the … first to analyse in the OECD-PISA context the potential advantages of re-testing the same students in order to provide …

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Earnings dispersion, risk aversion and eduation

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002

We estimate a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the degree of risk aversion can be inferred from schooling decisions. In our model, individuals are heterogeneous with respect to school and market abilities but homogeneous with respect to the degree of risk aversion. We...

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Long-term evolution of inequality of opportunity

Bussolo, Maurizio; Checchi, Daniele; Peragine, Vitorocco - 2019

different birth cohorts. Relative inequality of opportunity represents an important portion of total income inequality, with …. This is a quite different age profile from that of inequality of outcomes (income or consumption), which generally … countries, notably Italy, these trends have failed to translate into decreasing inequality of opportunity in the income …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012004719

Household characteristics, ability and education : evidence from a dynamic expected utility model

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 1999

household characteristics (especially household income). The "true'' intergenerational correlation between schooling attainments … and parents' education (after conditioning on observed and unobserved ability) is found to be quite low. Finally, our …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295416