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Does Additional Spending Help Urban Schools? An Evaluation Using Boundary Discontinuities
Gibbons, Steve; McNally, Sandra; Viarengo, Martina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
national tests at the end of primary school. This shows that school resources have an important role to play in improving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646299
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Does Money Matter for Schools?
Holmlund, Helena; McNally, Sandra; Viarengo, Martina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
educational outcomes. Yet changing the level of resources is one of the key policy levers open to governments. In the UK, school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822044
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822068
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822493