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Money matters: evidence from a large-scale Randomized field experiment with vouchers for adult training
Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2009
This paper presents the results of a randomized experiment analyzing the use of vouchers for adult training. In 2006, 2,400 people were issued with a training voucher which they were entitled to use in payment for a training course of their choice. User behavior was compared with a control group...
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Effects of adult education vouchers on the labor market: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Woessmann, Ludger; … - 2011
Lifelong learning is often promoted in ageing societies, but little is known about its returns or governments' ability to advance it. This paper evaluates the effects of a large-scale randomized field experiment issuing vouchers for adult education in Switzerland. We find no significant average...
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General education, vocational education, and labor-market outcomes over the life-cycle
Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger; Zhang, Lei - 2011
Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...
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Are Older Workers Willing to Learn?
Ruhose, Jens; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Weilage, Insa - 2020
Adult education can mitigate the productivity decline in aging societies if older workers are willing to learn. We examine a generous partial retirement reform in Germany that led to a massive increase in early retirement. Using county-level administrative data on voluntary education activities,...
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A Second Chance? The Labor Market Outcomes of Reforming Access to Adult Education
Bennett, Patrick; Blundell, Richard; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2021
Developing effective tools to address prime-aged high school dropouts is a key policy question. We leverage high quality Norwegian register data to examine the labour market outcomes of expanding access to adult workers and exploit a large policy reform which greatly enabled access to high...
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The Wider Benefits of Adult Learning : Work-Related Training and Social Capital
Ruhose, Jens - 2019
We propose a regression-adjusted matched difference-in-differences framework to estimate non-pecuniary returns to adult education. This approach combines kernel matching with entropy balancing to account for selection bias and sorting on gains. Using data from the German SOEP, we evaluate the...
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A Second Chance? The Labor Market Outcomes of Reforming Access to Adult Education
Bennett, Patrick; Blundell, Richard W.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2021
Developing effective tools to address prime-aged high school dropouts is a key policy question. We leverage high quality Norwegian register data to examine the labour market outcomes of expanding access to adult workers and exploit a large policy reform which greatly enabled access to high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013211734
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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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Prevention and Mitigation of Epidemics: Biodiversity Conservation and Confinement Policies
Augeraud-Véron, Emmanuelle; Fabbri, Giorgio; Schubert, … - 2020
. The planner can intervene in the economic and epidemiological dynamics in two ways: first (prevention), by deciding to … mitigate the pandemics are also societies doing a lot of prevention. After calibrating the model with Covid-19 pandemic data we … compare the miti-gation efforts predicted by the model with those of the recent literature and we study the optimal prevention …
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The Short-Run Macro Implications of School and Child-Care Closures
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Kuhn, Moritz; Tertilt, Michèle - 2020
challenging situations. We look at Germany and quantify the macroeconomic importance of working parents. We document that 26 …
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