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Albornoz-Crespo, Facundo; Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging eects on the educational systems of host countries. There is a now a large empirical literature, but very little theoretical work on this topic. We introduce a model of family immigration in a framework where school...

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Schooling and youth mortality: learning from a mass military exemption

Cipollone, Piero; Rosolia, Alfonso - Banca d'Italia - 2011

We examine the relationship between education and mortality in a young population of Italian males. In 1981 several cohorts of young men from specific southern towns were unexpectedly exempted from compulsory military service after a major quake hit the region. Comparisons of exempt cohorts from...

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The Role of Education in Technology Use and Adoption: Evidence from the Canadian Workplace and Employee Survey

Riddell, W. Craig; Song, Xueda - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011

Adoption of innovations by firms and workers is an important part of the process of technological change. Many prior studies find that highly educated workers tend to adopt new technologies faster than those with less education. Such positive correlations between the level of education and the...

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How Important are School Principals in the Production of Student Achievement?

Dhuey, Elizabeth; Smith, Justin - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011

As school leaders, principals can influence student achievement in a number of ways, such as: hiring and firing teachers, monitoring instruction, and maintaining student discipline, among others. We measure the effect of individual principals on gains in student math and reading achievement...

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Value-added measures in Italian high schools: problems and findings

Cipollone, Piero; Montanaro, Pasqualino; Sestito, Paolo - Banca d'Italia - 2010

Studentsï¿½ competencies are influenced by a host of factors, including the individual schoolï¿½s effectiveness. Measuring this contribution is extremely difficult. One way of circumventing the problem is by focusing on changes in competencies over time, i.e. value-added measures. Using...

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Measuring Productivity in the Public Sector: Some Conceptual Problems

Diewert, Erwin - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010

In many sectors of the economy, governments either provide various services at no cost or at highly subsidized prices. Examples are the health, education and general government sectors. The paper analyzes three possible general methods to measure the price and quantity of nonmarket government...

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Incentives, resources and the organization of the school system

Albornoz-Crespo, Facundo; Berlinski, Samuel; Cabrales, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

preferences for sorting across schools. …

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Does Longevity Cause Growth?

Hazan, Moshe; Zoabi, Hosny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This article challenges conventional wisdom by arguing that greater longevity cannot explain the significant accumulation of human capital during the transition from stagnation to growth. This is because greater longevity raises children’s future income proportionally at all levels of...

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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions

Alessie, Rob; Portela, Miguel; Teulings, Coen N - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement error. This paper analyses the effect of this measurement error on GDP regressions. There is a systematic difference in the education level between census data and observations...

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Marrying Your Mom: Preference Transmission and Women's Labour and Education Choices

Fernández, Raquel; Fogli, Alessandra; Olivetti, Claudia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper argues that the evolution of male preferences contributed to the dramatic increase in the proportion of … working and educated women in the population over time. Male preferences evolved because some men experienced a different … women who themselves were skilled or worked. Our model endogenizes the evolution of preferences in a dynamic setting and …

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