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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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Family Shocks and Academic Achievement
Hull, Marie C. - 2015
Disruptions in family life can take many forms, but all have the potential to impact student learning. With school administrative data matched to birth records, I estimate the effect of unexpected changes in the home environment, or family shocks, on achievement. Identification comes from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307411
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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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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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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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Symposium on Child Development and Parental Investment: Introduction
Francesconi, Marco; Heckman, James J. - 2016
This paper introduces the EJ Symposium on Child Development by reviewing the literature and placing the contributions of the papers in the Symposium in the context of a vibrant literature.
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Parental Job Loss and Children's Careers
Huttunen, Kristiina; Riukula, Krista - 2019
We study the effect of parental job loss on children's outcomes using administrative data from Finland. We focus on two channels through which parental job loss can affect children's careers: 1) by affecting the child's field of study choices and 2) by weakening social ties to the labor market....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179981
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Heterogeneous Effects of Missing out on a Place at a Preferred Secondary School in England
Gorman, Emma; Walker, Ian - 2020
Schools vary in quality, and high-performing schools tend to be oversubscribed: there are more applicants than places available. In this paper, we use nationally representative cohort data linked to administrative education records to study the consequences of failing to gain admission to...
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Mentoring and Schooling Decisions: Causal Evidence
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia - 2020
Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to different quality schools because their parents differ in socio-economic status. Based on a novel dataset for Germany, we demonstrate that children are significantly less likely to enter the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269452