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Bilingual Schooling and Earnings: Evidence from a Language-in-Education Reform
Cappellari, Lorenzo; Di Paolo, Antonio - 2015
We exploit the 1983 language-in-education reform that introduced Catalan alongside Spanish as medium of instruction in … Catalan schools to estimate the labour market value of bilingual education. Identification is achieved in a difference … returns to bilingual education and no effects on employment, hours of work or occupation. Results are robust to education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011739606
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Linguistic skills and the intergenerational transmission of language
Caminal, Ramón; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Di Paolo, Antonio - 2018
experiment generated by a language-in-education reform that introduced Catalan-Spanish bilingualism at school to estimate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059364
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The effects of schooling on cognitive skills: Evidence from education expansions
Cappellari, Lorenzo; Checchi, Daniele; Ovidi, Marco - 2022
We quantify the causal effect of schooling on cognitive skills across 21 countries and the full distribution of working-age individuals. We exploit exogenous variation in educational attainment induced by a broad set of institutional reforms affecting different cohorts of individuals in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014550296
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Parental assortative mating and the intergenerational transmission of human capital
Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2021
about 75 percent of the intergenerational correlation in education is driven by the joint contribution of the parents. We … also document a sizeable secular decline of parental assortative mating in education, with a corresponding fall in joint …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012609097
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Family, Community and Long-Term Earnings Inequality
Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2014
Correlations between the earnings of siblings reflect shared family and community background, but evidence is mixed on the relative magnitudes of these influences. We estimate long run earnings correlations between brothers, school mates and teenage neighbors jointly in a unified framework....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011739591
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Workers, firms and life-cycle wage dynamics
Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2018
-related wage components exploiting the informative content of the wage covariance structure of coworkers. Wage inequality increases … increasingly important, explaining the largest share of lifetime inequality. Static models that do not allow for life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059359
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Skilled or educated? Educational reforms, human capital and earnings
Cappellari, Lorenzo; Castelnovo, Paolo; Checchi, Daniele; … - 2016
We use OECD-PIAAC data to estimate the earnings effects of both years of education and of numerical skills. Our … education has the strongest earnings effect. A one standard deviation increase in years of education raises earnings by almost … 22 percentage points (corresponding to a return to education above 7 percentage points), which compares with a lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011739627