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The Effect of School Starting Age on Special Needs Incidence and Child Development into Adolescence
Balestra, Simone - 2018
Children starting school at older ages consistently exhibit better educational outcomes. In this paper, we underscore child development as a mechanism driving this effect. We study the causal effect of school starting age on a child's probability of developing special educational needs in early...
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Is Additional Schooling Worthless? Revising the 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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Student Earnings Expectations : Heterogeneity or Noise?
Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2016
Students' choices in education can only be based on expected outcomes. Econometric models that infer expectations based …
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The Return to College : Selection Bias and Dropout Risk
Hendricks, Lutz - 2014
This paper estimates the effect of graduating from college on lifetime earnings. Motivated by the fact that nearly half of all college students fail to earn a bachelor's degree, we study a model of risky college completion. The central idea is that students drop out of college mainly because...
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How Risky is College Investment?
Hendricks, Lutz - 2015
This paper is motivated by the fact that nearly half of U.S. college students drop out without earning a bachelor's degree. Its objective is to quantify how much uncertainty college entrants face about their graduation outcomes. To do so, we develop a quantitative model of college choice. The...
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The Effects of High School Peers' Gender on College Major, College Performance and Income
Anelli, Massimo - 2016
Using an originally constructed dataset that follows 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to the labor market, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We exploit the...
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Economic Returns to Speaking the Right Language(s)? Evidence from Kazakhstan's Shift in State Language and Language of Instruction
Aldashev, Alisher - 2014
This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan, a multi-ethnic country with complex ethnic settlement patterns that has switched its official state language from Russian to Kazakh. Using two newly assembled data sets, we...
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The Returns to Elite College Education : A Quasi-Experimental Analysis
Anelli, Massimo - 2016
threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual …
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Great Expectations and Hard Times - The (Nontrivial) Impact of Education on Domestic Terrorism
Brockhoff, Sarah; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - CESifo - 2012
This contribution investigates the role of education in domestic terrorism for 133 countries between 1984 and 2007. The … findings point at a nontrivial effect of education on terrorism. Lower education (primary education) tends to promote terrorism … education (university education) reduces terrorism in a cluster of countries where conditions are more favorable. This suggests …
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The Sources of the Gender Gap in Economics Enrolment
Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - CESifo - 2014
In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor’s degree in Economics, arguably an important stepping stone towards positions of influence in policy making and occupations paying relatively high wages. We investigate the sources of this gap by looking in detail...
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