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Jesus Speaks Korean : Christianity and Literacy in Colonial Korea
Becker, Sascha O.; Won, Cheongyeon - 2021
In the mid 19th century, pre-colonial Korea under the Joseon dynasty was increasingly isolated and lagging behind in its economic development. Joseon Korea was forced to sign unequal treaties with foreign powers as a result of which Christian missionaries entered the country and contributed to...
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Central Exams and Adult Skills : Evidence from PIAAC
Leschnig, Lisa; Schwerdt, Guido; Zigova, Katarina - 2021
Central exams are often hypothesized to favorably affect incentive structures in schools. Indeed, previous research provides vast evidence on the positive effects of central exams on student test scores. But critics warn that these effects may arise through the strategic behavior of students and...
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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 …
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School Feeding and Learning Achievement: Evidence from India's Midday Meal Program
Chakraborty, Tanika; Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2016
We study the effect of the world’s largest school feeding program on children’s learning outcomes. Staggered implementation across different states of a 2001 Indian Supreme Court Directive mandating the introduction of free school lunches in public primary schools generates plausibly...
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Employee Referral, Social Proximity and Worker Discipline: Theory and Evidence from India
Dhillon, Amrita; Iversen, Vegard; Torsvik, Gaute - 2013
We study an important mechanism underlying employee referrals into informal low skilled jobs in developing countries. Employers can exploit social preferences between employee referees and potential workers to improve discipline. The profitability of using referrals increases with referee stakes...
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Why Do We Ignore the Risk in Schooling Decisions?
Hartog, Joop; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2014
While uncertainty abounds in almost any decision on investment in schooling, it is mostly ignored in research and virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for risk, discusses the tough disentanglement of heterogeneity and risk, surveys the analytical...
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The Returns to Elite College Education: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis
Anelli, Massimo - 2016
admission threshold have 52% higher yearly income with respect to just-below-threshold students. This premium is equivalent to a … jump from the 44th percentile to the 74th percentile of the income distribution. The richness of the data allows me to … income premium. I find that students with a just-above-threshold score are less likely to be college dropouts, take six fewer …
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Is Additional Schooling Worthless? Revising Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2018
This study estimates the effect of compulsory schooling on earnings. For identification, I exploit a German reform that extended the duration of secondary schooling in the 1960s. I find that hourly wages increase by 6%-8% per additional year of schooling. This result challenges prior findings...
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Measuring the consumption value of higher education
Alstadsæter, Annette - 2009
of expected potential lifetime income. The ex post price for this consumption value turned out to be 39% of their … potential lifetime income. …
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The consumption value of higher education
Alstadsæter, Annette; Sievertsen, Hans Henrik - 2009
willing to forego 46 pct. of their potential income in order to enjoy the consumption value of this educational type. …
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