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This paper analyzes the drivers of wage differences among college graduates who hold a degree in a different field of study. We focus on Turkey, an emerging country that is characterized by a sustained expansion of higher education. We estimate conditional wage gaps by field of study using OLS...
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We study the role of professional networks in facilitating emigration of Jewish academics dismissed from their positions by the Nazi government. We use individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of dismissals to estimate causal effects. Academics with more ties to early émigrés...
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We study the role of professional networks in facilitating emigration of Jewish academics dismissed from their positions by the Nazi government. We use individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of dismissals to estimate causal eects. Academics with more ties to early émigrés...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014467880
In many organizations, productivity relies not just on individual effort but also on group morale, that is, the willingness of co-workers to help each other perform better at work. Relative performance evaluations (RPE) are known to increase individual work morale but may negatively affect group...
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measure the self-confidence of more than 2,000 students applying to colleges in France. This data reveals that the best female … and low-SES students significantly underestimate their rank in the grade distribution compared to male and high …-SES students. By matching our survey data with administrative data on real college applications and admissions, we show that …
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Using the Cox proportional hazards model this paper empirically investigates how migration of household members and the receipt of remittances affect educational outcomes in Haiti. Based on a theoretical approach it tries to disentangle the effects of both phenomena that have mostly been jointly...
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and students' cognitive and socio-emotional development. The German panel evidence shows that children's learning time … decreased severely during the first school closures, particularly for low-achieving students, and increased only slightly one … activities. The review shows substantial losses in cognitive skills on achievement tests, particularly for students from …
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This paper considers a fundamental question about the school environment - what are the long run effects of a student\'s … ordinal rank in elementary school? Using administrative data from all public school students in Texas, we show that students …
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to analyze the motivation, aspirations, and career expectations of undergraduate and graduate students of Samarkand … results of 400 undergraduate and 50 graduate students from Samarkand Agricultural Institute. The results reveal that half of … observed students did not make a career choice yet and face uncertainties in employment decisions. Compared with undergraduate …
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We quantify the private and fiscal lifetime returns to higher education in Germany accounting for the redistribution through the tax-and-transfer system, cohort effects, and the effect of income pooling within households. For this purpose we build a dynamic microsimulation model that simulates...
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