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We analyse a rich dataset of Economics students at a UK university to identify causal effects of class absence on student performance, exploiting the random assignment of students and information on students’ class timetables to avoid selection problems. We use panel properties of the data to...
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In this paper we provide new evidence on the causal effect of education on adult depression and cognition. We use SHARE … year of education has a large and significant protective effect on mental health; the probability of suffering depression …) estimates of the effect of education on depression and cognition. Using the data available in SHARELIFE on early life conditions …
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The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In … the 95% posterior interval for the effect of education on income. Thus, a violation of the strict validity assumption does …
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Despite the rapid expansion and increasing importance of private education in developing countries, little is known on … the impact of studying in private schools on education and wages. This paper contributes to filling this gap by estimating …
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education to assess the potential for skill imbalances to emerge. Based on our formal projections, we see little likelihood of …
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The need for education to help every child has become more important for policy in the US and the UK. Remedial …
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Household assets as part of youth's family background have been found to have a significant impact on youth's academic achievement. In this study, the impact of household possessions on youth's academic achievement in the Ghana YouthSave experiment is investigated. Findings support the...
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Prior research on the labor market success of secondary vocational education has produced mixed results, with several … education in general works by improving occupational sorting. …
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Previous research on educational mismatch concentrates on estimating its labor market consequences but with a focus on wage and salary workers. This paper examines the far less studied influence of mismatch on the self-employed. Using a sample of workers in science and engineering fields,...
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In the case of France, we analyse the changes in the wage value of each education level and the impact of parents …’ education and income upon the education attainment of children, sons and daughters. We find a critical decline in the skill … education degrees in relation to the bac, which is however not large enough to erase the decrease in all the skill premia …
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