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Resources and Standards in Urban Schools

Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra; Meghir, Costas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

resources matter for pupil outcomes. In this paper we look at this question by considering an English education policy …. We report results showing a positive impact of the extra resources on school attendance and performance in Mathematics … resources can matter for children in the poorest secondary schools, particularly when building on a solid educational or ability …

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Separating Uncertainty from Heterogeneity in Life Cycle Earnings

Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James; Navarro, Salvador - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper develops and applies a method for decomposing cross section variability of earnings into components that are forecastable at the time students decide to go to college (heterogeneity) and components that are unforecastable. About 60% of variability in returns to schooling is...

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A New Framework for the Analysis of Inequality

Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

earnings variability are due to uncertainty and which components are due to components of human diversity that are forecastable …

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Wage Risk and Employment Risk over the Life Cycle

Low, Hamish; Meghir, Costas; Pistaferri, Luigi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We specify a structural life-cycle model of consumption, labour supply and job mobility in an economy with search frictions that allows us to distinguish between different sources of risk and to estimate their effects. The sources of risk are shocks to productivity, job destruction, the process...

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