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The education-innovation gap
Biasi, Barbara; Ma, Song - 2022
This paper documents differences across higher-education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Comparing the … text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we construct the "education-innovation gap," a syllabus's relative … proximity to old and new knowledge. We show that courses differ greatly in the extent to which they cover frontier knowledge …
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Mentoring and schooling decisions : causal evidence
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia - 2020
Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to different quality schools because their parents differ in socio-economic status. Based on a novel dataset for Germany, we demonstrate that children are significantly less likely to enter the...
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Long-run trends in the U.S. SES-achievement gap
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Peterson, Paul E.; Talpey, Laura M.; … - 2020
Rising inequality in the United States has raised concerns about potentially widening gaps in educational achievement by socio-economic status (SES). Using assessments from LTT-NAEP, Main-NAEP, TIMSS, and PISA that are psychometrically linked over time, we trace trends in achievement for U.S....
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Socio-economic gaps in university enrollment : the role of perceived pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns
Boneva, Teodora; Rauh, Christopher - 2017
To understand the socio-economic enrollment gap in university attendance, we elicit students’ beliefs about the benefits of university education in a sample of 2,540 secondary school students. Our choice model estimates reveal that perceived non-pecuniary benefits explain a large share of the...
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The intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills: an investigation of the causal impact of families on student outcomes
Hanushek, Eric Alan; 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...
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Scientifico! Like Dad : On the Intergenerational Transmission of STEM Education in Italy
Chise, Diana - 2019
We provide novel evidence on the existence and the extent of intergenerational transmission of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education using a recent large administrative dataset of Italian graduates obtained from the Almalaurea data. Parental influence on two STEM...
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Long-Run Trends in the U.S. SES-Achievement Gap
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2020
Rising inequality in the United States has raised concerns about potentially widening gaps in educational achievement by socio-economic status (SES). Using assessments from LTT-NAEP, Main-NAEP, TIMSS, and PISA that are psychometrically linked over time, we trace trends in achievement for U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840957
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Unintended Consequences : Can the Rise of the Educated Class Explain the Revival of Protectionism?
Giordani, Paolo E. - 2020
This paper provides a rationale for the revival of protectionism, based on the rise of the educated class. In a trade model with heterogeneous workers and entrepreneurs, globalization generates aggregate gains but has distributional effects, which can be attenuated through taxation. By playing a...
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Implicit Stereotypes : Evidence from Teachers' Gender Bias
Carlana, Michela - 2018
I study whether exposure to teachers' stereotypes, as measured by the Gender-Science Implicit Association Test, affects student achievement. I provide evidence that the gender gap in math performance substantially increases when students are assigned to teachers with stronger gender stereotypes....
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The Effect of Grade Retention on Secondary School Performance : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Ferreira, Maria - 2018
We study the effects of grade retention on secondary school performance by considering a change in Colombia's educative legislation. In 2010, the rule that forced schools to retain up to a 5% of students was abolished. Exploiting variation in schools' retention rates in a...
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