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Early, late or never? : when does parental education impact child outcomes?

Dickson, Matt; Gregg, Paul; Robinson, Harriet - 2013

We study the intergenerational effects of parents' education on their children's educational outcomes. The endogeneity … Parents and Children - a rich cohort dataset of children born in the early 1990s in Avon, England - allows us to examine the … and continues to be visible up to and including the high stakes exams taken at age 16. Children of parents affected by the …

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The causal effects of education on adult health, mortality and income : evidence from Mendelian randomization and the raising of the school leaving age

Davies, Neil M.; Dickson, Matt; Smith, George Davey; … - 2019

We compare estimates of the effects of education on health and health behaviour using two different instrumental variables in the UK Biobank data. One is based on a conventional natural experiment while the other, known as Mendelian randomization (MR), is based on genetic variants. The natural...

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Talking about the pigou paradox : socio-educational background and educational outcomes of AlmaLaurea

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2011

-educational background of university graduates. Parents' educational level seems to be the main determinant of the probability to get a …-educational background on children success at the university is not direct, but through the high school track. In fact, although any … secondary high school gives access to the university, nonetheless lyceums provide students with far higher quality of education …

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The inheritance of educational inequality among young people in developing countries

Pastore, Francesco; Roccisano, Federica - 2015

upgrade and the role of parents' in sons' and daughters' education. …

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The causal effect of education on wages revisited

Dickson, Matt - 2009

This paper estimates the return to education using two alternative instrumental variable estimators: one exploits variation in schooling associated with early smoking behaviour, the other uses the raising of the minimum school leaving age. Each instrument estimates a 'local average treatment...

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Do international study programmes pay off for local students?

Wang, Zhiling; Pastore, Francesco; Karreman, Bas; Oort, … - 2021

students' job prospects, especially in a non-English speaking countries. Using rich administrative data from Statistics … addresses the self-selection issue by generating a matched sample of students with similar characteristics. We find that …

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Returns to apprenticeship training in Austria : evidence from failed firms

Fersterer, Josef (contributor); … - 2007

Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. There is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and there might be an important element of selection in who obtains an apprenticeship, and what type. To...

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The wage returns to education over the life-cycle : heterogeneity and the role of experience

Buscha, Franz; Dickson, Matt - 2015

This paper re-examines the wage returns to the 1972 Raising of the School Leaving Age (RoSLA) in England and Wales using a high-quality administrative panel dataset covering the relevant cohorts for almost 40 years of their labour market careers. With best practice regression discontinuity...

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Updates on returns to education in India: analysis using PLFS 2018-19 data

Chen, Jie; Kanjilal-Bhaduri, Sanghamitra; Pastore, Francesco - 2022

in other low- middle-income countries, especially in rural areas, it is important to increase primary and secondary level …

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"Study hard and make progress every day": updates on returns to education in China

Chen, Jie; Pastore, Francesco - 2021

In this paper, we apply Generalized Propensity Score Matching (GPSM) method, which deals with a continuous treatment variable, to estimate the returns to education in China from 2010 to 2017. Results are compared with OLS estimates from the classical Mincerian equation, as well as estimates from...

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