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Education, political discontent, and emigration intentions : evidence from a natural experiment in Turkey

Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Kunt, Pinar; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2019 - Revised: 10 June 2019

effect of education on emigration intentions. Our IV estimates indicate that an additional year of schooling increases the … effect of education on emigration intentions does not operate through financial dissatisfaction but rather through …

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Keep calm and carry on : the short- vs. long-run effects of mindfulness meditation on (academic) performance

Cassar, Lea; Fischer, Mira; Valero, Vanessa - 2022

business world and in education. While the scientific literature has largely documented the benefits of mindfulness meditation …

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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 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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How equal are educational opportunities? : family background and student achievement in Europe and the United States

Woessmann, Ludger - 2004

This paper estimates the effects of family-background characteristics on student performance in the US and 17 Western European school systems. Family background has strong effects both in Europe and the United States, remarkably similar in size. France and Flemish Belgium achieve the most...

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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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Lifetime consequences of lost instructional time in the classroom : evidence from shortened school years

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2022

This study estimates the lifetime effects of lost instructional time in the classroom on labor market performance. For identification, I use historical shifts in the school year schedule in Germany, which substantially shortened the duration of the affected school years with no adjustments in...

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The returns to elite college education : a quasi-experimental analysis

Anelli, Massimo - 2016

threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual …

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Getting lucky : the long-term consequences of exam luck

Landaud, Fanny; Maurin, Eric; Willage, Barton; Willén, … - 2022

This paper studies the impact of exam luck on individuals’ education and labor market success. We leverage unique … features of the Norwegian education system that produce random variation in the content of the exams taken by students at the … those generated by well-known education inputs, such as parental education and teacher quality. …

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