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The Effect of Community Traumatic Events on Student Achievement: Evidence from the Beltway Sniper Attacks
Gershenson, Seth; Tekin, Erdal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
teacher and student absences, school closures, and disturbances to usual classroom routines. Similarly, they might also … to the attacks. The main results indicate that the attacks significantly reduced school-level proficiency rates in … grade math proficiency, suggesting that the shootings caused a decline in school proficiency rates of about five to nine …
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Parental Health and Child Schooling
Bratti, Massimiliano; Mendola, Mariapia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
the short-run effects of parents’ illness on child school enrollment. Our analysis is based on household panel data from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216295
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Apprenticeship, Vocational Training and Early Labor Market Outcomes in East and West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Zibrowius, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We study the returns to apprenticeship and vocational training for three early labor market outcomes all measured at age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out of the labor force), permanent fulltime employment, and wages. We find strong positive effects of...
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The Earnings Returns to Graduating with Honors: Evidence from Law Graduates
Freier, Ronny; Schumann, Mathias; Siedler, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper studies the causal effects of graduating from university with an honors degree on subsequent earnings. While a rich body of literature has focused on estimating returns to human capital, few studies have analyzed returns at the very top of the education distribution. We highlight the...
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Earnings Differentials and Returns to Education in China, 1995-2008
Cui, Yuling; Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper estimates the returns to education of rural-urban migrants during the period of transition of China's economy between 1995 and 2008. Using data from CHIP and RUMiC, we find that rural migrants' earning differentials with urban residents are substantial and mainly depend on the type of...
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Personality, IQ, and Lifetime Earnings
Gensowski, Miriam - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Talented individuals are seen as drivers of long-term growth, but how do they realize their full potential? In this paper, I show that even in a group of high-IQ men and women, lifetime earnings are substantially influenced by their education and personality traits. I identify a previously...
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Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models by Maximum Likelihood and the Simulated Method of Moments
Eisenhauer, Philipp; Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We compare the performance of maximum likelihood (ML) and simulated method of moments (SMM) estimation for dynamic discrete choice models. We construct and estimate a simplified dynamic structural model of education that captures some basic features of educational choices in the United States in...
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Returns to University Quality in Australia: A Two-Stage Analysis
Carroll, David; Heaton, Christopher; Tani, Massimiliano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This study investigates the relationship between university quality and graduate starting salaries using pooled Australian data from the Graduate Destination survey and a two-stage estimation methodology. The results suggest that average starting salaries for young undergraduates differ...
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Does Higher Education Quality Matter in the UK?
Chevalier, Arnaud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper estimates the financial returns to higher education quality in the UK. To account for the selectivity of students to institution, we rely on a selection on observable assumptions. We use several estimates including the Generalised Propensity Score of Hirano and Imbens, which relies on...
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Earnings Inequality, Returns to Education and Immigration into Ireland
Barrett, Alan; FitzGerald, John; Nolan, Brian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
Increasing earnings inequality has been an important feature of the US and UK labour markets in recent years. The increase appears to be related to an increased demand for skilled labour and an increase in the returns to education. In this paper we examine what has happened to earnings...
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