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Understanding the Mechanisms Through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Savelyev, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the mechanisms producing these impacts. This paper uses longitudinal data on cognitive and personality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887064
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Which Factors Determine the Grades of Undergraduate Students in Economics? Some Evidence from Spain
Dolado, Juan J.; Morales, Eduardo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
students at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, over the period 2001-2005. Gender, nationality, type of school, specialization … track at high school and the grades at the university entry exam are the key factors we examine. Our main findings are that … those students who did a technical track at high school tend to do better in mathematics than those who followed a social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233861
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822041
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011228300
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A Balancing Act at Times of Austerity: Matching the Supply and Demand for Skills in the Greek Labour Market
Pouliakas, Konstantinos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper provides an evidence-based assessment of the current situation prevailing in the Greek market for skills and jobs. The synthesis of available skills intelligence for Greece, the country most severely affected by the global economic crisis of 2008, is crucial as it is currently faced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884076
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Age at Immigration and the Education Outcomes of Children
Corak, Miles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
likely that children who migrate face different challenges in attaining high school credentials depending upon their age at … Census is used and it is found that there is in fact a distinct change in the chances that children will hold a high-school … diploma according to the age at which they arrived in the country. The chances of being a high-school dropout do not vary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367499
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The Measurement of Educational Inequality: Achievement and Opportunity
Ferreira, Francisco H.G.; Gignoux, Jérémie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its selection is informed by consideration of two measurement issues that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369107
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Household Division of Labor, Partnerships and Children: Evidence from Europe
Gimenez, Jose Ignacio; Molina, Jose Alberto; Sanz, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper complements conventional economic analysis and presents a social norms interpretation to explain cross-country differences in partnership formation rates, and the dramatic decrease in partnership formation rates in Southern Europe in particular. We argue that increases in female human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762110
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Job-Worker Mismatch and Cognitive Decline
de Grip, Andries; Bosma, Hans; Willems, Dick; Boxtel, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We have used longitudinal test data on various aspects of people’s cognitive abilities to analyze whether overeducated workers are more vulnerable to a decline in their cognitive abilities, and undereducated workers are less vulnerable. We found that a job-worker mismatch induces a cognitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762183