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The Effect of Education Policy on Crime: An Intergenerational Perspective
Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Schnabel, Marieke - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
The intergenerational transmission of human capital and the extent to which policy interventions can affect it is an issue of importance. Policies are often evaluated on either short term outcomes or just in terms of their effect on individuals directly targeted. If such policies shift outcomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969389
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Career Progression, Economic Downturns, and Skills
Adda, Jerome; Meghir, Costas; Dustmann, Christian; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper analyzes the career progression of skilled and unskilled workers, with a focus on how careers are affected by economic downturns and whether formal skills, acquired early on, can shield workers from the effect of recessions. Using detailed administrative data for Germany for numerous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010618278
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Does Gifted Education Work? For Which Students?
Card, David E.; Giuliano, Laura - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Education policy makers have struggled for decades with the question of how to best serve high ability K‐12 students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969246
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Loans for Higher Education: Does the Dream Come True?
Rau, Tomás; Rojas, Eugenio; Urzúa, Sergio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper analyzes the impact of student loans for higher education on enrollment, dropout decisions, and earnings. We … SGL program increased the probability of enrollment and reduced the probability of dropping out from tertiary education … program. We attribute this negative result to the design of the SGL program, which has incentivized higher education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969251
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Endophilia or Exophobia: Beyond Discrimination
Hamermesh, Daniel; Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative: One group suffers compared to another. But does a difference arise because agents discriminate against others--are exophobic--or because they favor their own kind--are endophilic? This difference matters, as the relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969283
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Better Luck Next Time: Learning Through Retaking
Krishna, Kala; Frisancho, Verónica; Lychagin, Sergey; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
In this paper we provide some evidence that repeat taking of competitive exams may reduce the impact of background disadvantages on educational outcomes. Using administrative data on the university entrance exam in Turkey we estimate cumulative learning between the first and the nth attempt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969305
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Heterogeneous Economic Returns to Postsecondary Degrees: Evidence from Chile
Reyes, Loreto; Rodríguez, Jorge; Urzúa, Sergio S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
postsecondary education could rationalize this result, we argue this might also suggest that individuals lack information at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969379
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Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010
Lundberg, Shelly; Pollak, Robert A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women overtook and surpassed that of men and the ratio of men's to women's wage rates fell, traditional patterns of gender specialization in work weakened. The primary source of the gains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969382
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The Production of Human Capital: Endowments, Investments and Fertility
Aizer, Anna; Cunha, Flavio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We study how endowments, investments and fertility interact to produce human capital in childhood. We begin by providing empirical support for two key features of existing models of human capital: that investments and existing human capital are complements in the production of later human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969408
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The Economics of Human Development and Social Mobility
Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of early life conditions in shaping multiple life skills and the evidence on critical and sensitive investment periods...
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