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Africa’s Education Enigma? The Nigerian Story

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth Osarenti Oyelere nee Uwaifo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In the last two decades, the social and economic benefits of formal education in Sub-Saharan Africa have been debated. Anecdotal evidence points to low returns to education in Africa. Unfortunately, there is limited econometric evidence to support these claims at the micro level. In this study,...

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Returns to Schooling in Kazakhstan: OLS and Instrumental Variables Approach

Arabsheibani, G. Reza; Mussurov, Altay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper examines rates of return to schooling in Kazakhstan using OLS and instrumental variable (IV) methodologies. We use spouse’s education and smoking as instruments. We find that spouse’s education is a valid instrument and that conventional OLS estimates that assume the exogenous...

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Charters Without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston

Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila; Angrist, Joshua; Hull, Peter D.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Lottery estimates suggest oversubscribed urban charter schools boost student achievement markedly. But these estimates needn't capture treatment effects for students who haven't applied to charter schools or for students attending charters for which demand is weak. This paper reports estimates...

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Persistence of the School Entry Age Effect in a System of Flexible Tracking

Puhani, Patrick A.; Mühlenweg (née Weber), Andrea … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later stages of secondary education. To investigate the importance of such revisions, we use administrative data on the student population in the German state of Hessen to measure the...

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Does It Pay to Work for Free? Wage Returns and Gender Differences in the Market for Volunteers

Cozzi, Guido; Mantovan, Noemi; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

returns are differentially greater for men and account for a substantial proportion of the gender earnings gap. A comparison … women may also narrow the gender earnings gap. …

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Does Schooling Improve Cognitive Functioning at Older Ages?

Schneeweis, Nicole; Skirbekk, Vegard; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We study the relationship between education and cognitive functioning at older ages by exploiting compulsory schooling reforms, implemented in six European countries during the 1950s and 1960s. Using data of individuals aged 50+ from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE),...

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Selective Schools and Academic Achievement

Clark, Damon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In this paper I consider the impact of attending a selective high school in the UK. Students are assigned to these schools on the basis of a test taken in primary school and, using data on these assignment test scores for a particular district, I exploit this rule to estimate the causal effects...

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Estimating and Testing a Quantile Regression Model with Interactive Effects

Harding, Matthew; Lamarche, Carlos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

educational attainment. The findings show that (i) a change in the gender composition of a class impacts differently low- and high …

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The Effect of Age at School Entry on Educational Attainment in Germany

Fertig, Michael; Kluve, Jochen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

particular, German policy makers, pedagogues, parents, and teachers have since long discussed whether the traditional … children who entered school in the late 1960s through the late 1970s, a time when delaying enrolment was common, we investigate …

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Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany

Francesconi, Marco; Jenkins, Stephen P.; Siedler, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We analyze the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non …-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common … unobserved determinants of family structure and educational performance. But once endogeneity is accounted for, whether by using …

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