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Global trends in numeracy 1820-1949 and its implications for long-run growth
Crayen, Dorothee; Baten, Jörg - 2008
This study is the first to explore long-run trends of numeracy for the 1820-1949 period in 165 countries, and its … contribution to growth. Estimates of the long-run numeracy development of most countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, America …, and Europe are presented, using age-heaping techniques. Assessing the determinants of numeracy, we find school enrolment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264304
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Inequality, Low-Intensity Immigration and Human Capital Formation in the Regions of Chile, 1820-1939
Baten, Jörg; Llorca-Jaña, Manuel - 2020
This article traces inequality and numeracy development in the regions of Chile during the 19th and early 20th century … a relatively high share of North European migrants developed faster in terms of numeracy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207942
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How Do School District Boundary Changes and New School Proposals Affect Housing Prices
Ding, Xiaozhou; Bollinger, Christopher; Clark, Michael; … - 2020
In the past fifty years, a voluminous literature estimating the value of schools through capitalization in home prices has emerged. Prior research has identified capitalized value using various approaches including discontinuities caused by boundaries. We use changes in school boundaries and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179868
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Why Do Buyers Pay Different Prices for Comparable Products? Evidence from the Housing Market
Siebert, Ralph; Seiler, Michael J. - 2020
We focus on the housing market and examine why nonlocal home buyers (NLBs) pay 15 percent more for houses than local home buyers (LBs). We estimate a housing demand model that returns heterogeneous willingness to pay parameters for housing attributes. Our results show that NLBs are willing to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012227677
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Too Late to Buy a Home? School Redistricting and the Timing and Extent of Capitalization
Ding, Xiaozhou; Bollinger, Christopher; Clark, Michael; … - 2022
In the past fifty years, a voluminous literature estimating the value of schools through capitalization in home prices has emerged. Prior research has identified capitalization using a variety of approaches including discontinuities caused by boundaries. Here, we use changes in school boundaries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266612
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Estimation of Welfare Effects in Hedonic Difference-in-Differences: The Case in School Redistricting
Ding, Xiaozhou; Bollinger, Christopher; Clark, Michael; … - 2023
The difference-in-differences (DID) approach that identifies the capitalization of amenities through changes in housing prices has been widely used in the literature of hedonic estimation in the past decade. However, concerns have been raised about how to interpret the estimated capitalization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469551
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Heterogeneity in high math achievement across schools: Evidence from the American Mathematics Competition
Ellison, Glenn; Swanson, Ashley - 2012
This paper explores differences in the frequency with which students from different schools reach high levels of math achievement. Data from the American Mathematics Competitions is used to produce counts of high-scoring students from more than two thousand public, coeducational, non-magnet,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283594
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Does the market value value-added? Evidence from housing prices after a public release of school and teacher value-added
Imberman, Scott Andrew; Lovenheim, Michael - 2013
Value-added data are an increasingly common evaluation tool for schools and teachers. Many school districts have adopted these methods and released the results publicly. In this paper, we study the release of value-added data in Los Angeles by the Los Angeles Times newspaper to identify how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291554
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European Trade, Colonialism and Human Capital Accumulation in Senegal, Gambia and Western Mali, 1770 - 1900
Cappelli, Gabriele; Baten, Jörg - 2017
We trace the development of human capital in today’s Senegal, Gambia, and Western Mali between 1770 and 1900. European trade, slavery and early colonialism were linked to human capital formation, but this connection appears to have been heterogeneous. The contact with the Atlantic slave trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657189
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Cognitive Skills among Adults: An Impeding Factor for Gender Convergence?
Battisti, Michele; Fedorets, Alexandra; Kinne, Lavinia - 2023
skill distributions by gender across 34 countries. Despite increasing educational equality, inequalities in numeracy skills … to skills compared to men. We also find that these numeracy-wage patterns are especially pronounced for parents and for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377403