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Student Loans and the Allocation of Graduate Jobs

Cigno, Alessandro - 2015

common knowledge. Graduates and graduate jobs are matched by tournament. In laissez faire, only the rich can buy enough … some of the rich buy too much education, and some of the graduates have lower ability than some of the non-graduates … the same quality are assigned to graduates with the same education but different ability. Competition among employers will …

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Are Expectations Alone Enough? Estimating the Effect of a Mandatory College-Prep Curriculum in Michigan

Jacob, Brian Aaron - 2016

applies to the high school graduating class of 2008 and later. We use a student, longitudinal database for all public school …

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Academic Achievements : Grades versus Duration

Brugiavini, Agar - 2015

This paper investigates the determinants of academic achievements of post-reform undergraduate students of Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Academic achievements are measured with the students' grade point averages and time to graduation. The set of independent variables contains information on...

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Global Demographic Change and Climate Policies

Gerlagh, Reyer - 2017

Between 1950 and 2017, world average life expectancy increased from below-50 to above-70, while the fertility rate …

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Polarized Education Levels and Civil War

Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo - 2017

(equivalent to over 93 percent of the world population) from 1950 to 2014. Our results produce strong evidence for a positive …

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Government Education Expenditures, Pre-Primary Education and School Performance : A Cross-Country Analysis

Del Boca, Daniela - 2018

Using data from OECD's PISA, Eurostat and World Bank's WDI, we explore how child cognitive outcomes at the aggregate …

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Human Capital and National Institutional Quality : Are TIMSS, PISA, and National Average IQ Robust Predictors?

Jones, Garett - 2014

Is human capital a robust predictor of good institutions? Using a new institutional quality measure, the International Property Rights Index (IPRI), we find that cognitive skill measures are significant, robust, and large in magnitude. We use two databases of cognitive skills: estimates of...

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Virtually No Effect? Different Uses of Classroom Computers and their Effect on Student Achievement

Falck, Oliver - 2015

Most studies find little to no effect of classroom computers on student achievement. We suggest that this null effect may combine positive effects of computer uses without equivalently effective alternative traditional teaching practices and negative effects of uses that substitute more...

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The Value of Smarter Teachers : International Evidence on Teacher Cognitive Skills and Student Performance

Hanushek, Eric Alan - 2016

International differences in teacher quality are commonly hypothesized to be a key determinant of the large international student performance gaps, but lack of consistent quality measures has precluded testing this. Using unique assessment data, we construct country-level measures of teacher...

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Education and Health : The Role of Cognitive Ability

Bijwaard, Govert; Van Kippersluis, Hans; Veenman, Justus - 2021

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality using a structural equation model suggested by Conti et al. (2010). We extend their model by allowing for a duration dependent variable, and an ordinal educational variable. Data...

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