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The intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills: an investigation of the causal impact of families on student outcomes

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; … - 2021

The extensive literature on intergenerational mobility highlights the importance of family linkages but fails to provide credible evidence about the underlying family factors that drive the pervasive correlations. We employ a unique combination of Dutch survey and registry data that links math...

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Skills, signals, and employability : an experimental investigation

Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Simon, Lisa; … - 2018

As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals. To study which signals are valued by employers, we simultaneously and independently randomize a broad range of skill signals on pairs of resumes of fictitious applicants among...

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Education, lack of complementary investment and underemployment in an open economy

Marjit, Sugata; Ahuja, Rashmi; Pandey, Abhilasha - 2021

underemployment. Our paper offers to look at skill formation as a demand side problem not as a traditional supply side problem and … group leading to underemployment through the expansion of the informal sector. Both effects are due to shortage of …

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The market for CEOs

Cziraki, Peter; Jenter, Dirk - 2021

We study the market for CEOs of large publicly-traded US firms, analyze new CEOs' prior connections to the hiring firm, and explore how hiring choices are determined. Firms are hiring from a surprisingly small pool of candidates. More than 80% of new CEOs are insiders, defined as current or...

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Structural unemployment, underemployment, and secular stagnation

Hashimoto, Ken'ichi; Ono, Yoshiyasu; Schlegl, Matthias - 2020

We introduce a preference for wealth into the standard search and matching model to analyze the labor market when there … economy permanently operates below capacity due to both structural unemployment and underemployment. The latter is a direct … addition to the job creation channel of the standard matching model. Turning to the stagnation equilibrium, the effects of …

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Do cognitive test scores explain higher U.S. wage inequality?

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2004

Using microdata from the 1994-8 International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) for nine countries, we examine the role of cognitive skills in explaining higher wage inequality in the United States. We find that while the greater dispersion of cognitive test scores in the United States plays a part...

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The value of smarter teachers : international evidence on teacher cognitive skills and student performance

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Piopiunik, Marc; Wiederhold, Simon - 2014

Differences in teacher quality are commonly cited as a key determinant of the huge international student performance gaps. However, convincing evidence on this relationship is still lacking, in part because it is unclear how to measure teacher quality consistently across countries. We use unique...

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Do funds for more teachers improve student outcomes?

Borgen, Nicolai T.; Kirkebøen, Lars J.; Kotsadam, Andreas - 2022

We investigate the effects of a large-scale Norwegian reform that provided extra teachers to 166 lower secondary schools with relatively high student-teacher ratios and low average grades. We exploit these two margins using a regression discontinuity setup and find that the reform reduced the...

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Are personality traits really fixed and does it matter?

Stillman, Steven; Velamuri, Malathi - 2020

A nascent but burgeoning literature examines the importance of non-cognitive skills in determining success across many facets of life. The majority of these papers treat these skills as fixed traits for adults. We estimate the impact of a number of life events on the Big Five personality traits...

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Vocational high school graduate wage gap : the role of cognitive skills and firms

Hartog, Joop; Raposo, Pedro S.; Reis, Hugo - 2018

important changes in worker allocation to firms that are heterogeneous in wage policies: the demise of assortative matching …

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