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administrative to instructional spending and larger class sizes were observed, supporting the hypothesis of a Leviathan-like school … administration. For Switzerland, using a cross-sectional time-series panel of sub-federal school expenditure and size of classes, no …
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by boundaries. Here, we use changes in school boundaries and the opening of a new school to identify this capitalization …
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boundaries. We use changes in school boundaries and the proposal of a new school. Our findings from redistricting in the Fayette … county school district (KY) show that prices for homes redistricted from a lower-performing (based on test scores) school … into the proposed school catchment area increase by six percent. For houses in higher-performing school catchment areas …
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There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and foreign immigration, we estimate growth regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that...
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This paper provides a new measure of human capital using PISA and PIAAC surveys, and mean years of schooling. The new measure is a cohort-weighted average of past PISA scores (representing the quality of education) of the working age population and the corresponding mean years of schooling...
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Human capital can depreciate if skills are unused. But estimating human capital depreciation is challenging, as worker skills are difficult to measure and less productive workers are more likely to spend time in non-employment. We overcome these challenges with new administrative data on...
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the long-term effect of the Covid-19-related school closures on aggregate productivity through the human capital channel … school closure, respectively. These results appear to be broadly consistent with earlier findings in the literature. Two …
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sort out of public education and into private schooling. The IRCA differentially increases Hispanic school board members … and school expenditure, highlighting legal status as a driver of Hispanic human capital accumulation and representation. …
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Reduced inequality in human capital may reduce appropriationfrom the rich. They may therefore favor policies such as incometransfers and mandatory schooling which equalize human capital.Comparing several such policies, we find that mandatory schooling leads to higher incomes for both the rich...
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