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Does ethnic diversity in schools affect occupational choices?

Pregaldini, Damiano; Balestra, Simone; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2022

We study how two distinct dimensions of peer ethnic diversity (ethnic fractionalization and ethnic polarization) affect occupational choice. Using longitudinal administrative data and leveraging variation in ethnic composition across cohorts within schools, we find evidence for two opposing...

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Are student absences worth the worry in US primary schools?

Gershenson, Seth; Jacknowitz, Alison; Brannegan, Andrew - 2015

Student absences are a potentially important, yet understudied, input in the educational process. Using longitudinal data from a nationally-representative survey and rich administrative records from North Carolina, we investigate the relationship between student absences and academic...

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Diversity in schools: immigrants and the educational performance of U.S. born students

Figlio, David N.; Giuliano, Paola; Marchingiglio, Riccardo - 2021

combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school … immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …

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Minimum age requirements and the impact of school choice

Cáceres-Delpiano, Julio; Giolito, Eugenio P. - 2018

Using several data sources from Chile, we study the impact of school choice at the time of starting primary school. To … study the contribution of school choice, we exploit the combination of multiple cutoffs defining the minimum age at entry … the same municipality, and whose birthday differs by a few days not only have their incentives to delay school entry …

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On the mechanisms of ability peer effects

Gendre, Alexandra de; Salamanca, Nicolás - 2020

Studying with higher ability peers increases student performance, yet we have little idea why. We exploit random assignment of students to classrooms and find positive peer effects on test scores. With rich data on nineteen potential mechanisms, we then estimate how effects on attitudes,...

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Life expectancy, schooling, and lifetime labor supply : theory and evidence revisited

Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2013

This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the role of life expectancy for optimal schooling and lifetime labor supply. The results of a simple prototype Ben-Porath model with age-specific survival rates show that an increase in lifetime labor supply is not a necessary, nor a...

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Estimation of dynamic discrete choice models by maximum likelihood and the simulated method of moments

Eisenhauer, Philipp; Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - 2014

We compare the performance of maximum likelihood (ML) and simulated method of moments (SMM) estimation for dynamic discrete choice models. We construct and estimate a simplified dynamic structural model of education that captures some basic features of educational choices in the United States in...

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Unobserved ability and the return to schooling

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002

We estimate a structural dynamic programming model of schooling decisions with unobserved heterogeneity in school … utility of attending school and the wage regression function are estimated flexibly. The null hypothesis that the local …

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Earnings dispersion, risk aversion and eduation

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002

from schooling decisions. In our model, individuals are heterogeneous with respect to school and market abilities but …

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Selective schools

Brunello, Giorgio; Giannini, Massimo - 1999

This paper studies how schooling admission tests affect economic performance in an economy where individuals are endowed with both academic and non academic abilities and both abilities matter for labor productivity. We develop a simple model with selective government held schools, where...

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