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A second chance? : the labor market outcomes of reforming access to adult education
Bennett, Patrick; Blundell, Richard W.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2021
Developing effective tools to address prime-aged high school dropouts is a key policy question. We leverage high quality Norwegian register data to examine the labour market outcomes of expanding access to adult workers and exploit a large policy reform which greatly enabled access to high...
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Are older workers willing to learn?
Ruhose, Jens; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Weilage, Insa - 2020
Adult education can mitigate the productivity decline in aging societies if older workers are willing to learn. We examine a generous partial retirement reform in Germany that led to a massive increase in early retirement. Using county-level administrative data on voluntary education activities,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240402
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Parent-child information frictions and human capital investment : evidence from a field experiment
Bergman, Peter - 2015
This paper uses a field experiment to answer how information frictions between parents and their children affect … parents was provided de-tailed information about their child's academic progress. I frame the results in the context of a … persuasion game between parents and their children. Parents have upwardly-biased beliefs about their child's effort and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010533076
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The roots of cooperation
Bašić, Zvonimir; Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; … - 2021 - This version: 10 June 2021
and the socioeconomic background of parents play a vital role in the early development of human cooperation. …
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The roots of cooperation
Bašić, Zvonimir; Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; … - 2021
influence of children's cognitive skills and parents' socioeconomic background on cooperation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012668493
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The short-run macro implications of school and child-care closures
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Kuhn, Moritz; Tertilt, Michele - 2020
situations. We look at Germany and quantify the macroeconomic importance of working parents. We document that 26 percent of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012231511
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Evaluating intergenerational persistence of economic preferences : a large scale experiment with families in Bangladesh
Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, … - 2018 - This version: February 13, 2018
. Importantly, we find that socio-economic status of a family has no explanatory power as soon as we control for parents' economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011800548
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Money matters : evidence from a large-scale Randomized field experiment with vouchers for adult training
Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2009
This paper presents the results of a randomized experiment analyzing the use of vouchers for adult training. In 2006, 2,400 people were issued with a training voucher which they were entitled to use in payment for a training course of their choice. User behavior was compared with a control group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808133
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Effects of adult education vouchers on the labor market : evidence from a randomized field experiment
Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Woessmann, Ludger; … - 2011
Lifelong learning is often promoted in ageing societies, but little is known about its returns or governments' ability to advance it. This paper evaluates the effects of a large-scale randomized field experiment issuing vouchers for adult education in Switzerland. We find no significant average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009009619
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A gift is not always a gift : gift exchange in a voucher experiment
Becker, Sascha O.; Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2011
Different from traditional gift exchange experiments, we study a field experiment where a random subsample of participants in the Swiss Labor Force Survey was sent vouchers to be used in adult training courses. Importantly for our purposes, actual voucher redemption can be traced. This gives the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153892