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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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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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Cognitive, socioemotional, and behavioural returns to college quality
Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Mani, Subha; Sharma, Smriti; … - 2017
; behavioural preferences such as risk, competitiveness, and overconfidence; and socioemotional traits using measures of Big Five … personality. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that enrolling in a selective college leads to improvements in …
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Does managerial personality matter? Evidence from firms in Viet Nam
Sharma, Smriti; Tarp, Finn - 2018
personality traits of owners/managers - risk attitudes, locus of control, and innovativeness - and firm-level decisions. We extend … capital by shedding light on the role of managerial personality characteristics for decision-making in firms in a dynamic …
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Caste differences in behaviour and personality: Evidence from India
Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Mani, Subha; Sharma, Smriti; … - 2016
differentials in behavioural preferences and personality traits that are possibly associated with the persistent economic gap … Other Backward Classes are less likely to be endowed with the behavioural preferences and personality traits that tend to …, we find significant caste differences in behaviour and personality such that Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and …
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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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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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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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Self-Productivity in Early Childhood
Coneus, Katja; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2008
Self-productivity is a crucial feature in the process of skill formation. It means that skills and health acquired at one stage in the life cycle enhance skills and health formation at later stages. This paper presents an empirical investigation of self-productivity in early childhood in...
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