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Who Chooses Which Private Education? Theory and International Evidence
Bertola, Giuseppe; Checchi, Daniele - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Private school students do not always perform better in standardized tests. We suggest that this may be explained by … choice of private schooling by less capable students in countries where government schools are better suited to talented … students. To assess the empirical relevance of this mechanism, we exploit cross-country variation in the PISA 2009 survey of …
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Is teenage motherhood contagious? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Monstad, Karin; Propper, Carol; Salvanes, Kjell G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
There is relatively little research on peer effects in teenage motherhood despite the fact that peer effects, and in particular social interaction within the family, is likely to be important. We estimate the impact of an elder sister’s teenage fertility on the teenage childbearing of their...
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Immigration and the School System
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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Education and Invention
Toivanen, Otto; Väänänen, Lotta - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Modern growth theory puts invention on the center stage. Inventions are created by individuals, raising the question: can we increase number of inventors? To answer this question, we study the causal effect of M.Sc. engineering education on invention, using data on U.S. patents’ Finnish...
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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. In some countries where labour markets are...
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The Long-Run Educational Cost of World War II: An Example of Local Average Treatment Effect Estimation
Ichino, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
An important component of the long-run cost of a war is the loss of human capital, suffered by children of schooling age who receive less education because of the war. This paper shows that in the European countries involved in World War II, children who were ten years old during the conflict...
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Modelling Work-Related Training and Training Effects Using Count Data Techniques
Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L; Elias, Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
This paper estimates the determinants of the number of work-related training courses, and their impact on expected wages growth, using longitudinal data from the British National Child Development Study. The analysis covers a crucial decade in the working lives of a cohort of young men – from...
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Intergenerational Education Transmission: Neighbourhood Quality and/or Parents' Involvement
Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
We develop a model that gives some microfoundation to the impact of residential neighborhood on children’s educational attainment and then test it using the UK National Child Development Study. We find that, for high-educated parents, the better the quality of the neighborhood in terms of...
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The Effect of High School Matriculation Awards: Evidence from Randomized Trials
Angrist, Joshua; Lavy, Victor - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
and socioeconomic status. We attempted to increase the likelihood of matriculation among low-achieving students by … low-achieving students reduce investment in schooling because of high discount rates, part-time work, or face peer … pressure not to study. A small pilot programme selected individual students within schools for treatment, with treatment status …
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The Education, Labour Market and Health Consequences of Child Labour
Beegle, Kathleen; Dehejia, Rajeev H; Gatti, Roberta - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
Though there is a large literature on the determinants of child labour and many initiatives aimed at combating this phenomenon, there is limited evidence on the consequences of child labour for socioeconomic outcomes such as education, occupational choice, wages, and health. Using panel data...
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