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Pupil Achievement, School Resources and Family Background
Hægeland, Torbjørn; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
and researchers for decades. A main challenge when trying to answer this question is to separate the effects of school … resources from the effects of pupils’ family background, since resources may be allocated in a compensatory manner, and pupils … may sort into schools. We address these issues using a comprehensive dataset for two cohorts of pupils graduating from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822093
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Does the Expansion of Higher Education Increase the Equality of Educational Opportunities? Evidence from Italy
Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele; de Blasio, Guido - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper studies the role of the expansion of higher education (HE) in increasing the equality of tertiary education opportunities. It examines Italy’s experience during the 1990s, when policy changes prompted HE institutions to offer a wider range of degrees and to open new sites in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822106
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Merit Aid and Sorting: The Effects of HOPE-Style Scholarships on College Ability Stratification
Cornwell, Christopher; Mustard, David B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
In the last fifteen years there has been a significant increase in merit aid. Coincident with this increase in merit aid has been increased attention to sorting in various aspects of life, especially in education. This paper examines the extent to which merit-based aid exacerbates or ameliorates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822119
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Career Progression and Formal versus On-the-Job Training
Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Meghir, Costas; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We develop a dynamic discrete choice model of training choice, employment and wage growth, allowing for job mobility, in a world where wages depend on firm-worker matches, as well as experience and tenure and jobs take time to locate. We estimate this model on a large administrative panel data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822162
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Educational Effects of Widening Access to the Academic Track: A Natural Experiment
Maurin, Eric; McNally, Sandra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
It is difficult to know whether widening access to schools which provide a more academically oriented general education makes a difference to average educational achievement. We make use of reforms affecting admission to the ‘high ability’ track in Northern Ireland, but not England. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822165
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Parental Background, Primary to Secondary School Transitions, and Wages
Dustmann, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
made at a relatively early stage: after primary school, at around the age of ten. In this paper, we use micro data to … analyse the association between parents’ education and professional class and secondary track school choice and subsequent … and professional class are strongly related to the secondary track school the child follows, and subsequent educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822238
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The Costs of Missing the Millennium Development Goal on Gender Equity
Abu-Ghaida, Dina; Klasen, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
At the Millennium Summit, the world community pledged to promote gender equality and chose as a specific target the achievement of gender equity in primary and secondary education by the year 2005 in every country of the world. Based on the findings from a growing empirical literature that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822283
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Who Pays for General Training? New Evidence for British Men and Women
Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
We use important new training information from waves 8-10 of the British Household Panel Survey to document the various forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages. We initially present descriptive information about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822304
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Human Capital Spillovers and Economic Performance in the Workplace in 2004: Some British Evidence
Metcalfe, Renuka; Sloane, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper considers the impact of education and training on both individual and co-worker pay and establishment performance using the matched employer-employee data in WERS 2004, the panel dataset 1998-2004 and the new Financial Performance Questionnaire. This enables us to assess the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822352
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Class-Size Effects in School Systems Around the World: Evidence from Between-Grade Variation in TIMSS
Woessmann, Ludger; West, Martin R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
We estimate the effect of class size on student performance in 18 countries, combining school fixed effects and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822384