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Graduate competencies and employability: The impact of matching firms’ needs and personal attainments
Teijeiro, Mercedes; Rungo, Paolo; Freire, Mª Jesús - In: Economics of Education Review 34 (2013) C, pp. 286-295
Professional competencies are a key factor in gauging how employable a graduate is. This paper demonstrates that … individuals who have best developed the competencies which firms feel to be most important are more likely to be in a position to … importance and attainments. Results confirm the feeling among experts that the most relevant competencies in the labour market …
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How Learning a Musical Instrument Affects the Development of Skills
Hille, Adrian; Schupp, Jürgen - In: Economics of Education Review 44 (2015), pp. 56-82
Despite numerous studies on skill development, we know little about the effects of extracurricular music activities on cognitive and non-cognitive skills. This study examines how music training during childhood and youth affects the development of cognitive skills, school grades, personality,...
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Intended college enrollment and educational inequality: Do students lack information?
Peter, Frauke H.; Zambre, Vaishali - In: Economics of Education Review 60 (2017), pp. 125-141
Despite increasing access to university education, students from disadvantaged or non-academic family backgrounds are still underrepresented in universities. In this regard, the economics literature has focused on the role of financial constraints as a cause of these observed differences in...
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An analysis of Stafford loan repayment burdens
Chapman, Bruce; Lounkaew, Kiatanantha - In: Economics of Education Review 45 (2015) C, pp. 89-102
There is significant unease with the state of college loans in the US, of which Stafford loans are the most common. One of the most important issues relates to the “repayment burden” (RB), the proportion of a debtor's income per period required to repay loans. RBs are fundamental to...
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The differential impact of compulsory schooling laws on school quality in the United States segregated South
Sansani, Shahar - In: Economics of Education Review 45 (2015) C, pp. 64-75
In this paper, I estimate the differential effects of compulsory schooling laws on school quality between black and white schools in the United States segregated South. I employ state-level data on length of school terms and pupil–teacher ratios to examine these responses. Other literature has...
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The labor market returns to a for-profit college education
Cellini, Stephanie Riegg; Chaudhary, Latika - In: Economics of Education Review 43 (2014) C, pp. 125-140
A lengthy literature estimating the returns to education has largely ignored the for-profit sector. In this paper, we estimate the earnings gains to for-profit college attendance using restricted-access data from the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY97). Using an individual fixed...
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Knocking on the door to the teaching profession? Modeling the entry of prospective teachers into the workforce
Goldhaber, Dan; Krieg, John; Theobald, Roddy - In: Economics of Education Review 43 (2014) C, pp. 106-124
We use a unique longitudinal sample of student teachers (“interns”) from six Washington state teacher training institutions to investigate patterns of entry into the teaching workforce. We estimate split population models that simultaneously estimate the impact of individual characteristics...
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How learning a musical instrument affects the development of skills
Hille, Adrian; Schupp, Jürgen - In: Economics of Education Review 44 (2015) C, pp. 56-82
Despite numerous studies on skill development, we know little about the effects of extracurricular music activities on cognitive and non-cognitive skills. This study examines how music training during childhood and youth affects the development of cognitive skills, school grades, personality,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011190249
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All work and no play? The effects of ability sorting on students’ non-school inputs, time use, and grade anxiety
Wang, Liang Choon - In: Economics of Education Review 44 (2015) C, pp. 29-41
How students’ non-school inputs respond to ability grouping may explain the currently mixed findings in the literature about the impacts of tracking. Using data from South Korea, where students are randomized into middle schools under the country's equalization policy, but sorted into...
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The effect of Teach for America on the distribution of student achievement in primary school: Evidence from a randomized experiment
Antecol, Heather; Eren, Ozkan; Ozbeklik, Serkan - In: Economics of Education Review 37 (2013) C, pp. 113-125
Using data from a randomized experiment and fixed effect quantile regression (FEQR), we examine the effects of having a TFA teacher on test scores across the entire achievement distribution of primary school students in disadvantaged neighborhoods. While we generally find that TFA teachers...
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