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From Decline to Revival: Policies to Unlock Human Capital and Productivity

Andrews, Dan; Égert, Balázs; de La Maisonneuve, Christine - 2024

capital growth, mainly driven by the decline in the quality of human capital, as measured by PISA scores. An analytical …

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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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The Impact of the War on Human Capital and Productivity in Ukraine

Égert, Balázs; de la Maisonneuve, Christine - 2023

In addition to the humanitarian suffering and huge immediate economic costs, the war in Ukraine will have long … stock measure of human capital combining the quality and quantity of education and adult skills, this paper suggests that …

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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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The private and fiscal returns to schooling and the effect of public policies on private incentives to invest in education : a general framework and some results for the EU

De la Fuente, Angel; Jimeno, Juan F. - 2005

employment probabilities after allowing for academic failure rates, the direct and opportunity costs of schooling, and the impact …

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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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Are Non-Eligible Students Affected by Special Education?

Vaag Iversen, Jon Marius; Bonesrønning, Hans; … - 2013

We investigate whether the academic performance of non-eligible students - in an institutional setting of full inclusion - are affected by special education resources. Special education resources are per definition provided in a compensatory manner, and are increasingly being targeted to...

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Conditional Gender Peer Effects?

Iversen, Jon Marius Vaag; Bonesrønning, Hans - 2014

While the current empirical literature on peer group effects in schools highlights that credible causal peer effects cannot be estimated unless parental sorting is taken into account, the present paper highlights that causal peer effects might be conditional on the learning environment in which...

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Extracurricular Educational Programs and School Readiness: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment with Preschool Children

Makles, Anna; Schneider, Kerstin - 2016

This paper adds to the literature on extracurricular early childhood education and child development by exploiting unique data on an educational project in Germany, the Junior University (JU). Utilizing a quasi-experimental study design, we estimate the causal short-run effect of JU enrollment...

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