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The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive Skills: An Investigation of the Causal Impact of Families on Student Outcomes
Hanushek, Eric A.; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; Van … - 2021
The extensive literature on intergenerational mobility highlights the importance of family linkages but fails to provide credible evidence about the underlying family factors that drive the pervasive correlations. We employ a unique combination of Dutch survey and registry data that links math...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882430
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive Skills: An Investigation of the Causal Impact of Families on Student Outcomes
Hanushek, Eric A.; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; van … - 2021
The extensive literature on intergenerational mobility highlights the importance of family linkages but fails to provide credible evidence about the underlying family factors that drive the pervasive correlations. We employ a unique combination of Dutch survey and registry data that links math...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799688
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Where Do STEM Graduates Stem From? The Intergenerational Transmission of Comparative Skill Advantages
Hanushek, Eric A.; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; Van … - 2023
The standard economic model of occupational choice following a basic Roy model emphasizes individual selection and comparative advantage, but the sources of comparative advantage are not well understood. We employ a unique combination of Dutch survey and registry data that links math and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296861
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Can Mentoring Alleviate Family Disadvantage in Adolscence? A Field Experiment to Improve Labor-Market Prospects
Resnjanskij, Sven; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2021
We study a mentoring program that aims to improve the labor-market prospects of school-attending adolescents from disadvantaged families by offering them a university-student mentor. Our RCT investigates program effectiveness on three outcome dimensions that are highly predictive of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012493016
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Can Mentoring Alleviate Family Disadvantage in Adolescence? A Field Experiment to Improve Labor-Market Prospects
Resnjanskij, Sven; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2021
We study a mentoring program that aims to improve the labor-market prospects of school- attending adolescents from disadvantaged families by offering them a university-student mentor. Our RCT investigates program effectiveness on three outcome dimensions that are highly predictive of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497998
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Can Mentoring Alleviate Family Disadvantage in Adolscence? A Field Experiment to Improve Labor-Market Prospects
Resnjanskij, Sven; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2021
We study a mentoring program that aims to improve the labor-market prospects of schoolattending adolescents from disadvantaged families by offering them a university-student mentor. Our RCT investigates program effectiveness on three outcome dimensions that are highly predictive of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013248659
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive Skills : An Investigation of the Causal Impact of Families on Student Outcomes
Hanushek, Eric A.; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; … - 2021
The extensive literature on intergenerational mobility highlights the importance of family linkages but fails to provide credible evidence about the underlying family factors that drive the pervasive correlations. We employ a unique combination of Dutch survey and registry data that links math...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013322018
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Labor Mobility and Innovation in Africa
Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Okara, Assi; Tani, Massimiliano - 2022
We develop a theoretical model to investigate whether short-term mobility differentially affects innovation in product …, and the United Nations. We find that labor mobility positively affects innovation: on average, a 10% increase in the flow … products/services or process, supporting the use of labor mobility as an effective mechanism to diffuse productive knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882580
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Does Information about Inequality and Discrimination in Early Child Care Affect Policy Preferences?
Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Mierisch, Fabian; … - 2024
We investigate public preferences for equity-enhancing policies in access to early child care, using a survey experiment with a representative sample of the German population (n ≈ 4, 800). We observe strong misperceptions about migrant-native inequalities in early child care that vary by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533818
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Does Information about Inequality and Discrimination in Early Child Care Affect Policy Preferences?
Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Mierisch, Fabian; … - 2024
We investigate public preferences for equity-enhancing policies in access to early child care, using a survey experiment with a representative sample of the German population (n ≈ 4,800). We observe strong misperceptions about migrant-native inequalities in early child care that vary by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534327