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Education Policy Reform and the Return to Schooling from Instrumental Variables
Denny, Kevin; Harmon, Colm - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
This paper exploits an unusual policy reform that had the effect of reducing the direct cost of schooling in Ireland in the late 1960’s. This gave rise to an increased level of schooling but with effects that vary substantially across family background. This interaction of educational reform...
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Public sector decentralization and school performance: International evidence
Falch, Torberg; Fischer, Justina A.V. - In: Economics Letters 114 (2012) 3, pp. 276-279
Using a panel of international student test scores 1980–2000 (PISA and TIMSS), panel fixed effects estimates suggest that government spending decentralization is conducive to student performance. The effect does not appear to be mediated through levels of educational spending.
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School quality and the education–health relationship: Evidence from Blacks in segregated schools
Frisvold, David; Golberstein, Ezra - In: Journal of Health Economics 30 (2011) 6, pp. 1232-1245
school year, amplify the beneficial effects of education on several measures of health in later life, including self …
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Nonparametric Identification in Structural Economic Models
Matzkin, Rosa L. - In: Annual Review of Economics 5 (2013) 1, pp. 457-486
Structural economic models allow one to analyze counterfactuals when economic systems change and to evaluate the well-being of economic agents. A key element in such analysis is the ability to identify the primitive functions and distributions of the economic models that are employed to describe...
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The perils of peer effects
Angrist, Joshua D. - In: Labour Economics 30 (2014) C, pp. 98-108
Individual outcomes are highly correlated with group average outcomes, a fact often interpreted as a causal peer effect. Without covariates, however, outcome-on-outcome peer effects are vacuous, either unity or, if the average is defined as a leave-out mean, determined by a generic intraclass...
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More Schooling, More Children: Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe
Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source … of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on … the number of biological kids and the incidence of childlessness. We find that more education causes a substantial …
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The payoff to school selectivity: An application of Dale and Krueger’s method to MBA programs
Chen, Weiwei; Grove, Wayne A.; Hussey, Andrew - In: Economics Letters 116 (2012) 2, pp. 247-249
Many studies find a notable return to college quality. Dale and Krueger (2002, 2011) only do until they address selection bias concerns by proxying for ambition and by matching students with similar admission outcomes but different matriculation decisions. Although we employ similar...
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When the cat is near, the mice won't play: The effect of external examiners in Italian schools
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - In: Journal of Public Economics 104 (2013) C, pp. 65-77
We use a natural experiment to show that the presence of an external examiner has both a direct and an indirect negative effect on the performance of monitored classes in standardised educational tests. The direct effect is the difference in the test performance between classes of the same...
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Instrumental Variables with Unordered Treatments : Theory and Evidence from Returns to Fields of Study
Heinesen, Eskil; Hvid, Christian; Kirkebøen, Lars J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We revisit the identification argument of Kirkeboen et al. (2016) who showed how one may combine instruments for multiple unordered treatments with information about individuals' ranking of these treatments to achieve identification while allowing for both observed and unobserved heterogeneity...
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Wanna Get Away? RD Identification Away from the Cutoff
Angrist, Joshua; Rokkanen, Miikka - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
In the canonical regression discontinuity (RD) design for applicants who face an award or admissions cutoff, causal effects are nonparametrically identified for those near the cutoff. The impact of treatment on inframarginal applicants is also of interest, but identification of such effects...
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