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Why women are progressive in education? Gender disparities in human capital, labor markets, and family arrangement in the Philippines
Yamauchi, Futoshi; Tiongco, Marites - In: Economics of Education Review 32 (2013) C, pp. 196-206
This paper shows mutually consistent evidence to support female advantage in education and disadvantage in labor … level of schooling investments in daughters. Because wage penalty to females in labor markets means that education is … relatively important as a determinant of their earnings, parental investments in their daughters’ education has larger impacts on …
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Stuck in a mismatch? The persistence of overeducation during twenty years of the post-communist transition in Poland
Kiersztyn, Anna - In: Economics of Education Review 32 (2013) C, pp. 78-91
This paper examines long-term changes in the persistence of overeducation among individual workers, focusing on the relationship between the rate of those changes and the general economic situation. All analyses are based on data from the Polish Panel Survey (POLPAN) conducted throughout the...
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Local human capital externalities and wages at the firm level: Evidence from Italian manufacturing
Bratti, Massimiliano; Leombruni, Roberto - In: Economics of Education Review 41 (2014) C, pp. 161-175
produced by a reform that increased the supply of higher education to estimate human capital production externalities for …
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Do children spend too much time in schools? Evidence from a longer school year in Indonesia
Parinduri, Rasyad A. - In: Economics of Education Review 41 (2014) C, pp. 89-104
I examine the effects of a longer school year in Indonesia on grade repetition, educational attainment, employability, and earnings. I exploit an arbitrary rule that assigned students to a longer school year in Indonesia in 1978–1979, which fits a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. I find...
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Heterogeneous paths through college: Detailed patterns and relationships with graduation and earnings
Andrews, Rodney; Li, Jing; Lovenheim, Michael F. - In: Economics of Education Review 42 (2014) C, pp. 93-108
institutions – that students take to obtain a bachelor's degree or through the higher education system more generally. We also know …
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Overskilling dynamics and education pathways
Mavromaras, Kostas; McGuinness, Seamus - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 5, pp. 619-628
whether overskilling differs by education pathway. The answer to both questions is yes. The paper continues by asking whether … overskilling is a self-perpetuating labour market state (state dependence), and whether state dependence differs by education … pathway. Overskilled workers with a higher degree show the highest state dependence, while workers with vocational education …
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Frequency of examinations and student achievement in a randomized experiment
De Paola, Maria; Scoppa, Vincenzo - In: Economics of Education Review 30 (2011) 6, pp. 1416-1429
We carry out a randomized experiment involving undergraduate students enrolled at an Italian University attending two introductory economics classes to evaluate the impact on achievement of examination frequency and interim feedback provision. Students in the treated group were allowed to...
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The medium-term labor market returns to community college awards: Evidence from North Carolina
Liu, Vivian Y.T.; Belfield, Clive R.; Trimble, Madeline J. - In: Economics of Education Review 44 (2015) C, pp. 42-55
This paper examines the relative labor market gains for first-time college students who entered the North Carolina Community College System in 2002–2003. We compare the returns to diplomas, certificates, and degrees to the returns to some college credits. The authors also investigate the...
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Gender gaps in primary school achievement
Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Schils, Trudie - In: Economics of Education Review 41 (2014) C, pp. 176-187
In elementary school, girls typically outperform boys in languages and boys typically outperform girls in math. The determinants of these differences have remained largely unexplored. Using rich data from Dutch elementary schools, we decompose the differences in achievement into gender...
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Disruptive school peers and student outcomes
Kristoffersen, Jannie Helene Grøne; Krægpøth, Morten … - In: Economics of Education Review 45 (2015) C, pp. 1-13
This paper estimates how peers’ achievement gains are affected by the presence of potentially disruptive and emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate variation in peer composition in the receiving school-cohort....
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