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Are returns to education on the decline in Venezuela and does Mission Sucre have a role to play?
Gonzalez, Naihobe; Oyelere, Ruth Uwaifo - In: Economics of Education Review 30 (2011) 6, pp. 1348-1369
Anecdotal evidence points to a falling standard of living for the educated in Venezuela. During this same period, President Hugo Chávez implemented several education reforms. We focus on a major university education reform known as Mission Sucre and its potential impact on returns to university...
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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
We exploit presumably exogenous variation in the availability of college-educated workers at the province level produced by a reform that increased the supply of higher education to estimate human capital production externalities for Italian manufacturing firms. We show that when the potential...
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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
A considerable fraction of college students and bachelor's degree recipients enroll in multiple postsecondary institutions. Despite this fact, there is scant research that examines the nature of the paths – both the number and types of institutions – that students take to obtain a bachelor's...
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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
the income of their daughters than on their sons. Parents expect larger income shared from better-educated adult daughters …. In contrast, males stay in an equilibrium, with low levels of schooling investment and income sharing. Our results also …
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Overskilling dynamics and education pathways
Mavromaras, Kostas; McGuinness, Seamus - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 5, pp. 619-628
This paper uses panel data and econometric methods to estimate the incidence and the dynamic properties of overskilling among employed individuals. The paper begins by asking whether there is extensive overskilling in the labour market, and whether overskilling differs by education pathway. The...
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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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Family background variables as instruments for education in income regressions: A Bayesian analysis
Hoogerheide, Lennart; Block, Joern H.; Thurik, Roy - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 5, pp. 515-523
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 … confidence in the use of family background variables as instruments in income regressions. …
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Incentives for teacher relocation: Evidence from the Gambian hardship allowance
Pugatch, Todd; Schroeder, Elizabeth - In: Economics of Education Review 41 (2014) C, pp. 120-136
We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30–40% to primary school teachers in remote locations, on the distribution and characteristics of teachers across schools. A geographic discontinuity in the policy's implementation and the presence of...
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