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Skills and earnings : a multidimensional perspective on human capital

Woessmann, Ludger - 2024

The multitude of tasks performed in the labor market requires skills in many dimensions. Traditionally, human capital … of various skill dimensions for success in the labor market. This paper examines the returns to cognitive, personality … their labor market relevance. A synthesis and integration of the evidence on the relationship between multidimensional …

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The effects of home computers on educational outcomes : evidence from a field experiment with community college students

Fairlie, Robert W.; London, Rebecca A. - 2013

There is no clear theoretical prediction regarding whether home computers are an important input in the educational production function. To investigate the hypothesis that access to a home computer affects educational outcomes, we conduct the first-ever field experiment involving the provision...

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Student abilities during the expansion of US education

Hendricks, Lutz; Schoellman, Todd - 2013

The US experienced two dramatic changes in the structure of education in a fifty year period. The first was a large …

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Returns to skills around the world : evidence from PIAAC

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2014

Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across …

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The return to college : selection bias and dropout risk

Hendricks, Lutz; Leukhina, Oksana - 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; Leukhina, Oksana - 2015

This paper is motivated by the fact that nearly half of US 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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Modeling the effects of grade retention in high school

Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart; Picchio, Matteo - 2015

A dynamic discrete choice model is set up to estimate the effects of grade retention in high school, both in the short- (end-of-year evaluation) and long-run (drop-out and delay). In contrast to regression discontinuity designs, this approach captures treatment heterogeneity and controls for...

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Are there no wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany? : a reassessment

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2021

This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and von Wachter (Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3), 592-598), which is unusual in the literature yet widely cited and until now uncontradicted. I document that this finding...

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The legacy of Covid-19 in education

Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

on the conceptual framework of an education production function, we cover evidence on child, parent, and school inputs …

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Trade, education, and income inequality

Brückner, Markus; Long, Ngo Van; Vespignani, Joaquin - 2020

education of the population increases the correlation between non-gravity trade and income inequality becomes smaller. Non …-gravity trade has no significant effect on income inequality in countries that are world leaders in education. …

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