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Testing the Sorting Model of Education
Weiss, Andrew - 1984
Proprietary data for production workeis is analyzed to determine which aspects of productivity are affected by secondary schooling. The measures of productivity explored are: propensity to quit and be absent, phisical oatput per hour, and ability to perform complex tasks. The data suggests that...
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Econometric Methods for Research in Education
Meghir, Costas - 2010
of assessing the impact of education quality, the teacher contribution to pupils' achievement and the effect of school …
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Disruption, Achievement and the Heterogeneous Benefits of Smaller Classes
McKee, Graham J. - 2010
With few exceptions, empirical research investigating the possibility of heterogeneous benefits of class size reduction lacks a conceptual framework about specific dimensions of potential heterogeneity. In this paper we develop a model of education production that incorporates disruption and...
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The Effect of Age at School Entry on Educational Attainment : An Application of Instrumental Variables with Moments from Two Samples
Angrist, Joshua D. - 1990
This paper tests the hypothesis that compulsory school attendance laws, which typically require school attendance until … a specified birthday, induce a relationship between the years of schooling and age at school entry. Variation in school … start age created by children's date of birth provides a natural experiment for estimation of the effect of age at school …
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Dinner Table Human Capital and Entrepreneurship
Hvide, Hans K. - 2018
We document three new facts about entrepreneurship. First, a majority of male entrepreneurs start a firm in the same or a closely related industry as their fathers' industry of employment. Second, this tendency is correlated with intelligence: higher-IQ entrepreneurs are less likely to follow...
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The economics of school choice
Hoxby, Caroline M. (ed.) - 2003
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Ability Tracking, School Competition, and the Distribution of Educational Benefits
Epple, Dennis - 2000
To study the effects of ability grouping on school competition, we develop a theoretical and computational model of …
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When Incentives Matter Too Much : Explaining Significant Responses to Irrelevant Information
Ahn, Thomas - 2014
acquisition costs and a second on learning and imperfect information. Using data on school responses to discrete signals embedded … in North Carolina's school accountability system, we find patterns of results inconsistent with the first model but …
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Cross-Country Differences in Productivity : The Role of Allocation and Selection
Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2009
This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm-level) policy distortions on aggregate outcomes. On the one hand, a growing body of empirical research has been relating cross-country differences in key economic outcomes, such...
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Plant-Size Distribution and Cross-Country Income Differences
Alfaro, Laura - 2008
We investigate, using plant-level data for 79 developed and developing countries, whether differences in the allocation of resources across heterogeneous plants are a significant determinant of cross-country differences in income per worker. For this purpose, we use a standard version of the...
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