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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

month maternal reservation interest rate. -- Time preferences ; impatience : intergenerational transmission ; field …

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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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Noncognitive skills in economics : models, measurement, and empirical evidence

Thiel, Hendrik; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2009

There is an increasing economic literature considering personality. This paper provides an overview on the role of …. Based on the relevant literature from different disciplines, the common psychometric measures used to assess personality are … discussed. A recently proposed theoretical framework of human capital production takes personality explicitly into account. It …

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Noncognitive skills in economics : models, measurement, and empirical evidence

Thiel, Hendrik; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2011 - Revised version: November 15, 2011

There is an increasing economic literature considering personality traits as a source of individual differences in … disciplines, the common psychometric measures used to assess personality are discussed and critical assumptions for their … application are highlighted. We sketch current research that aims at incorporating personality traits into economic models of …

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Skill formation, career planning, and transitions : the last two years in a German lower track secondary school

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Licklederer, Stefanie - 2014

In Germany, the entry into the labor market for students in the nonacademic tracks of secondary schools may take multiple pathways. Students graduating from lower track secondary schools (LTSS) face major problems in school-towork transitions, prompting the provision of intensive career guidance...

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Training and individual performance in Europe : evidence from microeconometric studies

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2000

Learning at school and university and also at the work place has become more important in the knowledge-based economy. This paper provides a critical review of recent econometric work on the determinants and impacts of training in Europe. Training has non negligible positive effects for firms...

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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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