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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; … - 2021
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...
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Quick Job Entry or Long-Term Human Capital Devlopment? The Dynamic Effects of Alternative Training Schemes
Osikominu, Aderonke - 2012
This paper investigates how precisely short-term, job-search oriented training programs as opposed to long-term, human capital intensive training programs work. We evaluate and compare their effects on time until job entry, stability of employment, and earnings. Further, we examine the...
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A Letter and Encouragement : Does Information Increase Post-Secondary Enrollment of UI Recipients?
Barr, Andrew - 2017
For individuals who experience job loss, enrollment in post-secondary programs may provide an opportunity to improve future employment outcomes. However, decisions to enroll may be hampered by insufficient information about the benefits and costs and the necessary steps and assistance available...
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Sensitivity of Matching-Based Program Evaluations to the Availability of Control Variables
Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - 2021
Based on new, exceptionally informative and large German linked employer-employee administrative data, we investigate the question whether the omission of important control variables in matching estimation leads to biased impact estimates of typical active labour market programs for the...
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Performance of Young Adults : The Importance of Different Skills
Falch, Torberg - 2013
This paper uses teacher assessments at age 16 in Norwegian comprehensive schools to measure different types of skills. While we follow the literature and interpret test scores in Mathematics and Science as proxy for cognitive skills, we use a novel measure for another type of skills: Performance...
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Can't Buy Mommy's Love? Universal Childcare and Children's Long-Term Cognitive Development
Felfe, Christina - 2013
What happens to children's long-run cognitive development when introducing universal high-quality childcare for 3-year olds mainly crowds out maternal care? To answer this question we exploit a natural experiment framework and employ a difference-in-difference approach. We find sizable...
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Screening Through Activation : Differential Effects of a Youth Activation Programme
Hall, Caroline - 2017
theoretic framework. Utilizing an RD design, we analyse responses to a nationwide Swedish youth activation program. We find that …
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The Impact of Financial Education on Adolescents' Intertemporal Choices
Lührmann, Melanie - 2018
We study the impact of financial education on intertemporal choice in adolescence. The educational program was randomly assigned among high-school students and choices were measured using an incentivized experiment. Students who participated in the program make more time-consistent choices; are...
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Teenage Pregnancies and Births in Germany : Patterns and Developments
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2014
We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) and from the German Mikrozensus. Following the international literature we derive hypotheses on the patterns of teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the...
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Corruption and Political Stability : Does the Youth Bulge Matter?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2016
This study shows that the relative size of the youth bulge matters for how corruption affects the internal stability of … with a relatively large youth population. Using panel data covering the 2002-2012 period for more than 100 countries, we … find a negative interaction effect between the relative size of the youth population and corruption on internal political …
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