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The Education-Innovation Gap
Biasi, Barbara; Ma, Song - 2022
This paper documents differences across higher-education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Comparing the … text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we construct the “education-innovation gap,” a syllabus’s relative … proximity to old and new knowledge. We show that courses differ greatly in the extent to which they cover frontier knowledge …
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Education, social mobility and religious movements: A theory of the Islamic revival in Egypt
Binzel, Christine; Carvalho, Jean-Paul - 2013
This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293120
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Educational Inequality and the Returns to Skills
Lundberg, Shelly - 2013
Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children - how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329036
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Local Employer Competition and Training of Workers
Rzepka, Sylvi; Tamm, Marcus - 2013
The new training literature suggests that in a monopsonistic market employers will not only pay for firm-specific training but also for general training if the risk of poaching is limited. This implies that training participation should decrease when competition for employees is higher among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329138
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Genes, Education, and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Thom, Kevin - 2016
Recent advances have led to the discovery of specific genetic variants that predict educational attainment. We study how these variants, summarized as a genetic score variable, are associated with human capital accumulation and labor market outcomes in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We...
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Genetic Ability, Wealth, and Financial Decision-Making
Barth, Daniel; Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Thom, Kevin - 2017
Recent advances in behavioral genetics have enabled the discovery of genetic scores linked to a variety of economic outcomes, including education. We build on this progress to demonstrate that the same genetic variants that predict educational attainment independently predict household wealth in...
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Selection and Educational Attainment: Why Some Children Are Left Behind? Evidence from a Middle-Income Country
Méndez-Errico, Luciana; Ramos, Xavier - 2019
We model schooling as a sequential process and examine why some children are left behind. We focus on the factors that explain selection at early stages of the education system. Our findings for Uruguay suggest that long-term factors, such as parental background or ethnicity matter across all...
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Does Ignorance of Economic Returns and Costs Explain the Educational Aspiration Gap? Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Wößmann, Ludger - 2018
The gap in university enrollment by parental education is large and persistent in many countries. In our representative survey, 74 percent of German university graduates, but only 36 percent of those without a university degree favor a university education for their children. The latter are more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872057
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Does Ignorance of Economic Returns and Costs Explain the Educational Aspiration Gap? Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018
The gap in university enrollment by parental education is large and persistent in many countries. In our representative survey, 74 percent of German university graduates, but only 36 percent of those without a university degree favor a university education for their children. The latter are more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873457
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Does Learning Beget Learning Throughout Adulthood? Evidence from Employees' Training Participation
Kramer, Anica; Tamm, Marcus - 2016
Individuals with more years of education generally acquire more training later on in life. Such a relationship may be due to skills learned in early periods increasing returns to educational investments in later periods. This paper addresses the question whether the complementarity between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011494331