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Within-Groups Wage Inequality and Schooling : Further Evidence for Portugal

Andini, Corrado - 2007

This paper provides further evidence on the positive impact of schooling on within-groups wage dispersion in Portugal, using data on male workers from the 2001 wave of the European Community Household Panel. The issue of schooling endogeneity is taken into account by using the newest available...

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How Important are Fixed Effects and Time Trends in Estimating Returns to Schooling? Evidence from a Replication of Jacobson, Lalonde and Sullivan, 2005

Dynarski, Susan M. - 2018

A substantial and rapidly growing literature has developed around estimating earnings gains from two-year college degrees using administrative data. These papers almost universally employ a person-level fixed effects strategy to estimate earnings premia net of fixed attributes. We note that the...

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Quantile Regression Estimates of the Effect of Student Absences on Academic Achievement

Gershenson, Seth - 2018

Credible evidence from a variety of contexts suggests that student absences harm academic achievement. However, extant studies focus entirely on the average effects of student absences, and how those average effects vary by student, school, and absence type. This paper enhances our understanding...

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Intergenerational and Intragenerational Externalities of the Perry Preschool Project

Heckman, James J. - 2019

participants. The children of treated participants have fewer school suspensions, higher levels of education and employment, and …

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The Returns to Education at Community Colleges : New Evidence from the Education Longitudinal Survey

Marcotte, Dave E. - 2016

Community colleges have long been recognized for their potential in providing access to post-secondary education for … years ago. In the meantime, the market for higher education has changed drastically, and the Great Recession and economy of … the evidence on the employment and earnings effects of community college education. I study the experiences of the …

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Effects of the Bologna Reform on Educational Outcomes : Micro Evidence from Germany

Hahm, Sabrina - 2016

The Bologna Process aimed at harmonizing European higher education systems and at increasing their efficiency. This …

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Recent Flattening in the Higher Education Wage Premium : Polarization, Skill Downgrading, or Both?

Valletta, Robert G. - 2016

education wage premiums with reference to two related explanations for changing U.S. employment patterns: (i) a shift away from … Population Survey suggest that both factors have contributed to the flattening of higher education wage premiums …

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Cognitive Performance and Labor Market Outcomes

Lin, Dajun - 2016

We use information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and supplementary data sources to examine how cognitive performance, measured at approximately the end of secondary schooling, is related to the labor market outcomes of 20 through 50 year olds. Our estimates control...

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Returns to Schooling Among Immigrants in Spain : A Quantile Regression Approach

Budría, Santiago - 2016

-scale immigration survey published by the Spanish National Statistics Institute in 2008.We find that the return to higher education is … the benefits derived from higher education are particularly relevant for individuals with stronger unobserved abilities … return. The large degree of heterogeneity for the returns to schooling found in our research suggests that higher education …

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Education quality and the empirics of economic growth : reconciling Mankiw-Romer-Weil estimates with microeconometric evidence

Rodrigues, Mauro; Souza, Danilo Paula de - In: Applied economics letters 28 (2021) 6, pp. 470-476

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