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Angrist, Noam; Winseck, Kevin; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; … - 2023

surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education … combat climate change. Results show a year of education increases pro-climate beliefs, behaviors, most policy preferences …

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Private education provision and public finance : the Netherlands

Patrinos, Harry Anthony - In: Education economics 21 (2013) 4, pp. 392-414

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Children's patience and school-track choices several years later: linking experimental and field data

Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; … - 2021

We present direct evidence on the link between children's patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three years later at the end of middle school, we find that...

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Education quality, green technology, and the economic impact of carbon pricing

Macdonald, Kevin; Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2021

received less attention is education quality. If technological change that reduces the reliance of production on emissions is … elastic skill supply through better education quality may mitigate adverse economic outcomes, including wage inequality, and … economy's reliance on emissions for production. Having higher quality education - defined as the level of cognitive skills …

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Religion in economic history: a survey

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms -Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and on the period up...

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Religion in economic history : a survey

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

This paper surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and on the period up...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229328

Lost wages: the COVID-19 cost of school closures

Psacharopoulos, George; Collis, Victoria; Patrinos, … - 2020

marginal future earnings on the basis of a four-month shutdown. We also estimated the losses by level of education. The …

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Educational inequality and public policy preferences : evidence from representative survey experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …

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Do natives' beliefs about refugees' education level affect attitudes toward refugees? : evidence from randomized survey experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Piopiunik, Marc; Simon, Lisa - 2017

exogenously shifted participants' beliefs about refugees' education level through information provision. Consistent with economic … theory, we find that beliefs about refugees' education significantly affect concerns about labor market competition. These …

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Children's patience and school-track choices several years later : linking experimental and field data

Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; … - 2021

We present direct evidence on the link between children’s patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three years later at the end of middle school, we find...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533965