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School tracking and intergenerational social mobility : postponing school tracking can increase social mobility without significant adverse effects on educational achievement
Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2014
The goal of school tracking (assigning students to different types of school by ability) is to increase educational efficiency by creating more homogeneous groups of students that are easier to teach. However, there are concerns that, if begun too early in the schooling process, tracking may...
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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
The standard economic model of occupational choice following a basic Roy model emphasizes individual selection and comparative advantage, but the sources of comparative advantage are not well understood. We employ a unique combination of Dutch survey and registry data that links math and...
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Public Education and Intergenerational Housing Wealth Effects
Gilraine, Michael; Graham, James; Zheng, Angela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
While rising house prices benefit existing homeowners, we document a new channel through which price shocks have intergenerational wealth effects. Using panel data from school zones within a large U.S. school district, we find that higher local house prices lead to improvements in local school...
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Diversifying Society's Leaders? The Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges
Chetty, Raj; Deming, David J.; Friedman, John N - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Leadership positions in the U.S. are disproportionately held by graduates of a few highly selective private colleges. Could such colleges -- which currently have many more students from high-income families than low-income families -- increase the socioeconomic diversity of America's leaders by...
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Education and Socioeconomic Mobility in Post-Communist Countries
Veraschagina, Alina - In: Social Exclusion. Short and Long Term Causes and …
Patterns of intergenerational educational mobility are studied in twelve post-communist countries of Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. No clear trend in educational inheritance emerges over the recent 50 years, covering both the period of socialism and transition to a market economy....
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The long-lasting effects of family background: A European cross-country comparison
Mazzonna, Fabrizio - In: Economics of Education Review 40 (2014) C, pp. 25-42
childhood health and school performance, education and labor market outcomes. The results show a strong relationship between … family SES during childhood and old age outcomes and a large cross-country heterogeneity. Education appears as the main …
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The intergenerational transmission of education: Evidence from Taiwanese adoptions
Tsou, Meng-Wen; Liu, Jin-Tan; Hammitt, James K. - In: Economics Letters 115 (2012) 1, pp. 134-136
from Taiwan. Using birth-parents’ education to help control for selective placement of children with adoptive parents, we …
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Educational Attainment and Labour Market Outcomes in South Africa, 1994-2010
Branson, Nicola; Leibbrandt, Murray - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
In this paper we document the impact of education levels on labour market outcomes from 1994 to 2010 using national … household survey data. We show that higher levels of education are strongly rewarded in the labour market in terms of earnings … in the reward to education level are evident for Africans versus the overall population, between urban and rural areas …
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Education Quality and Labour Market Outcomes in South Africa
Branson, Nicola; Leibbrandt, Murray - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
In this paper we include measures of school quality in regressions determining the labour market premiums to education … proxies for education quality. We find that the employment and earnings premiums to education level are robust to the … earnings, controlling for education level. Increasing the matric exemption score by 10 percentage points increases earnings, on …
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Employment polarization and the role of the apprenticeship system
Rendall, Michelle; Weiss, Franziska - 2014
This paper studies the effects of the apprenticeship system on innovation and labor market polarization. A stylized model with two key features is developed: (1) apprentices are more productive due to industry-specific training, but (2) from the firm's perspective, when training apprentices,...
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