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The Co-Twin Methodology and Returns to Schooling - Testing a Critical Assumption
Sandewall, Örjan; Cesarini, David; Johannesson, Magnus - 2010
Twins-based estimates of the return to schooling feature prominently in the labor economics literature. The validity of such estimates hinges critically on the assumption that within-pair variation in schooling is explained by factors which are unrelated to wage earning ability. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014191352
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A Measure of the Cognitive Component of the Return to Schooling
Pasche, Cyril D. - 2008
What is it about schooling that the labor market rewards? The long time answer has essentially been noncognitive skills (i.e., behavioral and personality traits). Allowing cognitive skills (i.e., the capacity to process information and apply knowledge to working tasks) to be acquired both inside...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014220470
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Family Structure and Child Outcomes in the United States and Sweden
Bjorklund, Anders; Ginther, Donna K.; Sundstrom, Marianne - 2021
children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family … United States and Sweden is interesting because both family structure and public policy environments in the two countries … differ significantly. Family structure could potentially have a less negative effect in Sweden than in the United States …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319100
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The Co-twin Methodology and Returns to Schooling: Testing a Critical Assumption
Sandewall, Örjan; Cesarini, David; Johannesson, Magnus - 2009
Twins-based estimates of the return to schooling feature prominently in the labor economics literature. The validity of such estimates hinges critically on the assumption that within-pair variation in schooling is explained by factors which are unrelated to wage earning ability. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320361
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Like brother, like sister? : the importance of family background for cognitive and non-cognitive skills ; conference paper
Anger, Silke; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2013
family background for skill formation. The study is based on a large representative German dataset, which includes IQ test … Maximum Likelihood (REML) model we find substantial influences of family background on the skills of both brothers and sisters … in cognitive skills are higher than 0.50, indicating that more than half of the inequality can be explained by family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336812
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Do sibling correlations in skills, schooling, and earnings vary by socioeconomic background? : insights from Sweden
Forsberg, Erika; Akib Khan; Rosenqvist, Olof - 2024
Family background shapes individual outcomes throughout life. While the existing literature documents how the … importance of family background, typically measured by the degree of sibling correlation in socioeconomic outcomes, varies across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015057465
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Noncognitive skills, school achievements and educational dropout
Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - 2009
-Economic Panel from 2000 to 2007. In addition to the role of classical variables like family background and school achievements, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003828231
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How Does Education Improve Cognitive Skills? Instructional Time versus Timing of Instruction
Dahmann, Sarah C. - 2015
This paper investigates two mechanisms through which education may affect cognitive skills in adolescence: the role of instructional quantity and the timing of instruction with respect to age. To identify causal effects, I exploit a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019464
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Occupational mismatch of immigrants in Europe : the role of education and cognitive skills
Cim, Merve; Kind, Michael Sebastian; Kleibrink, Jan - 2017
Occupational mismatch is a wide-spread phenomenon among immigrants in many European countries. Mismatch, predominantly measured in terms of education, is often regarded as a waste of human capital. Such discussions, however, ignore the imperfect comparability of international educational degrees...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632140
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Education, skills & labor-market success : microeconometric analyses using large-scale skills assessments
Hampf, Franziska Bernadette - 2020
Franziska Bernadette Hampf prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education. The study was completed in September 2019 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012194172