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Are There No Wage Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany? A Reassessment
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2021
This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and von Wachter (Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3), 592-598), which is unusual in the literature yet widely cited and until now uncontradicted. I document that this finding...
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Race-Blind Admissions, School Segregation, and Student Outcomes : Evidence from Race- Blind Magnet School Lotteries
Cook, Jason - 2019
This paper studies a school district that was federally mandated to adopt a race-blind lottery system to fill seats in its oversubscribed magnet schools. The district had previously integrated its schools by conducting separate admissions lotteries by race to offset its predominantly black...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892247
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A New Macroeconomic Measure of Human Capital Exploiting PISA and PIAAC : Linking Education Policies to Productivity
Égert, Balázs; de la Maisonneuve, Christine; Turner, David - 2022
This paper provides a new measure of human capital using PISA and PIAAC surveys, and mean years of schooling. The new measure is a cohort-weighted average of past PISA scores (representing the quality of education) of the working age population and the corresponding mean years of schooling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013290779
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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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Losing Prospective Entitlement to Unemployment Benefits. Impact on Educational Attainment
Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080047
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The Value of Early-Career Skills
Langer, Christina; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023
We develop novel measures of early-career skills that are more detailed, comprehensive, and labor-market-relevant than existing skill proxies. We exploit that skill requirements of apprenticeships in Germany are codified in state-approved, nationally standardized apprenticeship plans. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014260527
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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-term consequences, among which are losses in human capital that will impact aggregate productivity for many years. Exploiting a new stock measure of human capital combining the quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377487
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Cyclical Income Risk in Great Britain
Angelopoulos, Konstantinos - 2019
This paper establishes new evidence on the cyclical behaviour of household income risk in Great Britain and assesses … Panel Survey (1991-2008) by decomposing stochastic idiosyncratic income into its transitory, persistent and fixed components …. We then estimate how income risk, measured by the variance and the skewness of the probability distribution of shocks to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012872060
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Early Childcare Duration and Students' Later Outcomes in Europe
Boca, Daniela Del; Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - 2022
The importance of investment in early childhood education (ECE) has been widely documented in the literature. Among the benefits, particularly for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, is its potential to mitigate educational inequality. However, some evidence also suggests that the positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014079643
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To React or Not? Fiscal Policy, Volatility and Welfare in the EU-3
Malley, Jim - 2008
policy is purely to stabilize output or debt volatility, then our results suggest substantial reductions can be obtained …, especially with respect to output. In stark contrast, however, a formal general equilibrium welfare assessment of the volatility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773638