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empirical strategy to estimate the intention-to-treat effect of this paid exemption on the education and labor market outcomes … reduction in education when we implement the same exercises with (i) data on females and (ii) placebo reform dates. The … interpretation is that the reform has reduced the incentives to continue education for the purpose of deferring military service. We …
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experience that is associated with each percentile of the education-level specific wage distribution. In the second step, we map …
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Since the mid-20th century many OECD countries have discarded their previous selective schools systems, in which students early on were separated between academic and vocational tracks, in favor of more comprehensive schools. The effects of these reforms have generally been difficult to evaluate...
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This study evaluates the impact of achieving tertiary eligibility in upper-secondary education on tertiary education … that it has a substantial impact on the probability of enrolling in tertiary education. For students who achieve tertiary … eligibility, the probability of enrolling in tertiary education increases by around 15 and 7 percentage points for an academic and …
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that age, for cognitive test scores at ages 16 and 18, and for completed education and wages at age 27 to 42. The estimated …
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. Calibrating the model to the United States, we find that health inequality is an important source of lifetime earnings inequality … words, the SSDI program is an important contributor to lifetime earnings inequality. Despite this, we show that it is ex …
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Working while studying at university increases the time-to-degree and may interfere with learning, but the acquired work experience may also improve employment opportunities and increase wages after the graduation. This study examines how university students' employment decisions affect their...
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(the oldest). The analysis of educational attainment suggests that significant differences in the type of education exist …. Younger students are more likely to pursue an apprenticeship and less likely to have higher education. After five years of …
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Women have always earned less than men, with men's greater physical strength explaining a large portion of the difference. This raises the question of why the gender gap did not disappear when the importance of physical strength waned with the emergence of the modern labor market. This paper...
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, using data from the Adult Education Survey of 2007. By adopting a bivariate equation framework, we jointly model the effect …
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