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The Distributional Consequences of Diversity-Enhancing University Admissions Rules

Chan, Jimmy; Eyster, Erik - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper examines public attitudes towards university admissions rules by focusing on the imposition of the costs of racial diversity across majority citizens. High-income majority citizens, who tend to have better academic qualifications, favour more diversity under affirmative action, which...

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Heterogeneous Class Size Effects: New Evidence from a Panel of University Students

Bandiera, Oriana; Larcinese, Valentino; Rasul, Imran - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects of class size on students' test scores. We observe the same student …-linear class size effects controlling for unobserved heterogeneity of both individual students and faculty. We find that -- (i) at … smallest and largest ranges of class sizes and zero over a wide range of intermediate class sizes; (iii) students at the top of …

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The Effect of Financial Rewards on Students' Achievements: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; van der Klaauw, Bas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper reports a randomized field experiment in which first year economics and business students at the University … particular, students with high maths skills and students with higher educated fathers have higher passing rates and collect more … treatment status, these students claim that they have studied harder as a consequence of the rewards. …

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Learning to Take Risks? The Effect of Education on Risk-Taking in Financial Markets

Black, Sandra; Devereux, Paul J.; Lundborg, Petter; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We investigate whether acquiring more education when young has long-term effects on risk-taking behavior in financial markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is substantial evidence that more educated people are more likely to invest in the stock market....

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Returns to Education across Europe

Glocker, Daniela; Steiner, Viktor - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Incentives to invest in higher education are affected by both the direct wage effect of human capital investments and the indirect wage effect resulting from lower unemployment risks and shorter spells in unemployment associated with higher educated. We analyse the returns to education in...

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The Impact of Immigration on the Structure of Wages: Theory and Evidence from Britain

Manacorda, Marco; Manning, Alan; Wadsworth, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Immigration to the UK, particularly among more educated workers, has risen appreciably over the past 30 years and as such has raised labor supply. However studies of the impact of immigration have failed to find any significant effect on the wages of native-born workers in the UK. This is...

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The Aggregate Labour Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program

Albrecht, James; den Berg, Gerard J van; Vroman, Susan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997--2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of low-skill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labour market outcomes. This is...

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Risk Aversion and Human Capital Investment: A Structural Econometric Model

Brodaty, Thomas; Gary-Bobo, Robert J.; Prieto, Ana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

. Assuming that students' attitudes toward risk can be represented by a CRRA utility, we show that the risk-aversion parameter …

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Earnings Inequality, Returns to Education and Immigration into Ireland

Barrett, Alan; Fitz Gerald, John; Nolan, Brian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

Increasing earnings inequality has been an important feature of the US and UK labour markets in recent years. The … paper we examine what has happened to earnings inequality and the returns to education in Ireland between 1987 and 1997. We … simulation suggests that immigration did indeed reduce earnings inequality. This result is an interesting corollary to work from …

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Explaining Youth Labour Market Problems In Spain: Crowding-Out, Institutions, Or Technology Shifts?

Dolado, Juan J.; Felgueroso, Florentino; Jimeno, Juan F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

This paper examines the empirical evidence regarding the poor performance of the youth labour market in Spain over the last two decades, which entails very high unemployment for both higher and lower educated workers, symptoms of over-education, and low intensity of on-the-job training. It also...

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