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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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Cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and family background : evidence from sibling correlations

Anger, Silke; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2016

This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family background for skill formation. Based on a large representative German dataset including IQ test scores and measures of non-cognitive skills, a restricted maximum likelihood model...

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The impact of education on personality : evidence from a German high school reform

Dahmann, Sarah; Anger, Silke - 2014

This paper investigates the short-term effects of a reduction in the length of high school on students' personality … and across states to identify the effect of schooling on students' Big Five personality traits and on their locus of … students and students from disrupted families showed stronger personality changes following the reform: they became more …

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Impatience Among Preschool Children and Their Mothers

Kosse, Fabian; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2012

Using experimental data of children and their mothers, this paper explores the intergenerational relationship of impatience. The child’s impatience stems from a delay of gratification experiment. Mother’s impatience has been assessed by a choice task where the mothers faced trade-offs...

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A stylized satellite account for human capital

Liu, Gang - 2015

This paper presents a satellite account in which investment in human capital is considered as a produced product/asset. It is not the education sector but the individual person taking education or training/courses that is the genuine producer of human capital. The former only provides education...

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Gender segregation in education and its implications for labour market outcomes: Evidence from India

Sahoo, Soham; Klasen, Stephan - 2018

This paper investigates gender-based segregation across different fields of study at the postsecondary level of schooling, and how that affects subsequent labour market outcomes of men and women. Using a nationally representative longitudinal data-set from India, we provide evidence that there...

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Labor market pooling and human capital investment decisions

Amend, Elke; Herbst, Patrick - 2008

Dass Arbeitsmarkt-Pooling einer der Vorteile von Ballungsräumen ist, ist zwar empirisch belegt, theoretisch jedoch nur gering fundiert. Der Beitrag stellt ein Modell der Humankapitalbildung in einem imperfekten kompetitiven gepoolten Arbeitsmarkt mit heterogenen Arbeitskräften und Unternehmen...

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Additional Career Assistance and Educational Outcomes for Students in Lower Track Secondary Schools

Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2017

Based on local policy variation, this paper estimates the causal effect of additional career assistance on educational outcomes for students in Lower Track Secondary Schools in Germany. We find mostly insignificant effects of the treatment on average outcomes, which mask quite heterogeneous...

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Central exams and adult skills: evidence from PIAAC

Leschnig, Lisa; Schwerdt, Guido; Zigova, Katarina - 2021

Central exams are often hypothesized to favorably affect incentive structures in schools. Indeed, previous research provides vast evidence on the positive effects of central exams on student test scores. But critics warn that these effects may arise through the strategic behavior of students and...

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Noncognitive Skills in Economics : Models, Measurement, and Empirical Evidence

Thomsen, Stephan L.; Thiel, Hendrik - 2018

consideration of personality traits in the economic literature has started and substantially contributes to narrow the gap of …

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