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Post-secondary education and information on labor market prospects : a randomized field experiment
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Sarvimäki, Matti; … - 2015
We examine the impact of an information intervention offered to 97 randomly chosen high schools in Finland. Graduating students in treatment schools were surveyed and given information on the labor market prospects associated with detailed post-secondary programs. A third of the students report...
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The making of social democracy: the economic and electoral consequences of Norway’s 1936 folk school reform
Acemoglu, Daron; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Salvanes, Kjell G.; … - 2021
by the reform significantly increased their education and experienced higher labor income. Our main result is that the …. These results are not driven by the direct impact of education and are not explained by higher turnout, or greater attention …
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Lost boys : access to secondary education and crime
Huttunen, Kristiina; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Uusitalo, Roope; … - 2019
We study the effect of post-compulsory education on crime by exploiting a regression discontinuity design generated by …
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