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More education, less volatility? : the effect of education on earnings volatility over the life cycle
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2017
little evidence about whether having more education causes employees to experience lower earnings volatility or shelters them … 1972 increase in compulsory schooling on earnings volatility over the life cycle. Our estimates suggest that men exposed to … evidence that education affects earnings volatility of older men. …
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Money counts, but so does timing : public investment and adult competencies
Cathles, Alison; Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2017
Numeracy skills of adults within and across 12 different countries in 2011 are strongly associated with the accumulated public investments in education received by these adults during their schooling. This paper confirms existing evidence that the timing of educational investments is important,...
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Does schooling improve cognitive abilities at older ages : causal evidence from nonparametric bounds
Amin, Vikesh; Behrman, Jere R.; Fletcher, Jason; … - 2022
We revisit the much-investigated relationship between schooling and health, focusing on cognitive abilities at older ages using the Harmonized Cognition Assessment Protocol in the Health & Retirement Study. To address endogeneity concerns, we employ a nonparametric partial identification...
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Compulsory class attendance versus autonomy
Goulas, Sofoklis; Griselda, Silvia; Megalokonomou, Rigissa - 2021
Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education requires a solid grasp of the impact of student autonomy on learning. In this paper, we estimate the effect of an increased autonomy policy for higher-performing students on short- and longer-term school outcomes. We exploit an...
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A structural model of educational attainment in Canada
Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2013
benefits from investing in education. The results suggest that the effect of an increase in parental income on educational … attainment is modest. For example, a 25 percent increase in parental income is predicted to increase post-secondary education … (PSE) attendance by one percent only. However, our results indicate that financial resources, other than parental income …
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The effects of compulsory military service exemption on education and labor market outcomes : evidence from a natural experiment
Torun, Huzeyfe; Tumen, Semih - 2016
also find suggestive evidence that the paid exemption reform reduces the labor income for males in the target group. The …
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The causal effects of adolescent school : bullying victimisation on later life outcomes
Gorman, Emma; Harmon, Colm; Mendolia, Silvia; Staneva, Anita - 2019
We use rich data on a cohort of English adolescents to analyse the long-term effects of experiencing bullying victimisation in junior high school. The data contain self-reports of five types of bullying and their frequency, for three waves of the data, when the pupils were aged 13 to 16 years....
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Early-years multi-grade classes and pupil attainment
Borbely, Daniel; Gehrsitz, Markus; McIntyre, Stuart; … - 2021
We study the effect of exposure to older, more experienced classroom peers resulting from the widespread use of multi-grade classes in Scottish primary schools. For identification, we exploit that a class-planning algorithm quasi-randomly assigns groups of pupils to multi-grade classes. We find...
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The causal effect of education on climate literacy and pro-environmental behaviours : evidence from a nationwide natural experiment
Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2020
There is a widespread belief that a lack of education is the primary cause of public apathy to climate change. Yet, despite the global campaign to promote education as a tool to combat global warming, empirical evidence on the causal effect of education on climate literacy and pro-environmental...
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Where do STEM graduates stem from? : the intergenerational transmission of comparative skill advantages
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; … - 2023
The standard economic model of occupational choice following a basic Roy model emphasizes individual selection and comparative advantage, but the sources of comparative advantage are not well understood. We employ a unique combination of Dutch survey and registry data that links math and...
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