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the macro literature on education and growth. The fraction of the population more efficient at producing skills in the …) effect education on growth measured in the empirical literature. -- compulsory schooling reforms ; dynamic skill accumulation … ; comparative advantages ; returns to schooling ; education and growth ; dynamic discrete choice ; dynamic programming …
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-cycle wage growth of U.S. white males into four main sources: education, hours worked, cognitive skills (AFQT scores) and … individual differences in hours worked and education explain the remaining part almost equally. We show how our model is a … education. Finally, because policy changes induce simultaneous movements in observed choices and average per-year effects …
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I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment - sibling gender composition - affects women's gender conformity, measured through their choice of occupation and partner. Using Danish administrative data, I causally estimate the effect of having a second-born brother...
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Using unique data on preference rankings for all high school students who apply for college in Ireland, we investigate whether, conditional on absolute achievement, within school-cohort rank in English and math affects choice of college major. We find that higher rank in math increases the...
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We examine economic growth, inequality and education when the wellspring of growth is the formation of human capital …
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issue of self-selection into teacher education has been mostly overlooked until now. The analyses contained in our study are … reinforced by institutional and structural characteristics of the types of higher education institutions and the courses of study … teachers depend to a large extent also on where and how teachers are trained. -- Teacher education ; teacher training ; teacher …
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capital ; labor supply ; retirement ; training ; dynamic complementarity ; inequality ; returns to education ; (non …
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The choice of a college major plays a critical role in determining the future earnings of college graduates. Students make their college major decisions in part due to the future earnings streams associated with the different majors. We survey students about what their expected earnings would be...
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Using a 1/5 random draw of the 1% census of 2005, we investigate how China’s higher education expansion commenced in … 1999 affects the education opportunities of various population groups and how this policy affects the labor market …. Treating the expansion as an experiment and using a LATE framework, we find that higher education expansion increased the …
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This paper assesses the status of education, both quantity and quality, in Bihar in both absolute terms and relative to … of educational outcomes. It also surveys the broader literature on education policies which provides a perspective on the … current policies in the field of education in Bihar. Finally, it makes a case for several policy initiatives that should be …
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