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Beyond the classroom: Using title IX to measure the return to high school sports

Stevenson, Betsey - 2010

Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates - to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates - in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...

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A Global Regression Discontinuity Design: Theory and Application to Grade Retention Policies

Opper, Isaac M.; Özek, Umut - 2024

We use a marginal treatment effect (MTE) representation of a fuzzy regression discontinuity setting to propose a novel estimator. The estimator can be thought of as extrapolating the traditional fuzzy regression discontinuity estimate or as an observational study that adjusts for endogenous...

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Does One Plus One Always Equal Two? Examining Complementarities in Educational Interventions

Özek, Umut - 2024

Public policies targeting individuals based on need often impose disproportionate burden on communities that lack the resources to implement these policies effectively. In an elementary school setting, I examine whether community-level interventions focusing on similar needs and providing...

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Going Back to School Takes Time: Evidence from a Negative Trade Shock

Garon, Jean-Denis; Haeck, Catherine; Bourassa-Viau, Simon - 2020

We estimate the impact of a negative trade shock on labour market outcomes and educational choices of workers. We exploit the Canadian lumber exports crisis beginning in 2007 in a quasi-experimental design. We find that the employment probability of forestry industry workers decreased by 4.1...

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A Partial Identification Approach to Identifying the Determinants of Human Capital Accumulation: An Application to Teachers

Mehta, Nirav - 2022

This paper views teacher quality through the human capital perspective. Teacher quality exhibits substantial growth …

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A New Macroeconomic Measure of Human Capital Exploiting PISA and PIAAC: Linking Education Policies to Productivity

Egert, Balazs; de la Maisonneuve, Christine; Turner, David - 2022

measure is a cohort-weighted average of past PISA scores (representing the quality of education) of the working age population … elasticity of the stock of human capital with respect to the quality of education is three to four times larger than for the … greater from improvements in the quality than quantity component of human capital. The magnitude of these potential gains in …

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Closing the Gap between Vocational and General Education? Evidence from University Technical Colleges in England

Machin, Steve; McNally, Sandra; Terrier, Camille; … - 2020

Some countries, notably those which have long had a weak history of vocational education like the UK and the US, have recently seen a rapid expansion of hybrid schools which provide both general and vocational education. England introduced ‘University Technical Colleges’ (UTCs) in 2010 for...

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The Contribution of Human Capital and Its Policies to Per Capita Income in Europe and the OECD

Egert, Balazs; Botev, Jarmila; Turner, David - 2020

external accountability. From a policy perspective, improving the quality of the labour force and value-for-money of education …

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Persecution and Escape: Professional Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany

Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun; … - 2021

We study the role of professional networks in facilitating the escape of persecuted academics from Nazi Germany. From 1933, the Nazi regime started to dismiss academics of Jewish origin from their positions. The timing of dismissals created individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of...

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Quantifying the Macroeconomic Impact of Covid-19-Related School Closures through the Human Capital Channel

de la Maisonneuve, Christine; Egert, Balazs; Turner, David - 2023

This paper uses a new measure of human capital, which distinguishes both quality and quantity components, to estimate … opposing effects might influence these estimates. Online teaching would lower economic costs while learning losses in tertiary … education (not considered here) would inflate them. Policies aimed at improving the quality of education and adult training will …

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