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Fiscal Policy and Educational Attainment in the United States : A Generational Accounting Perspective

Chojnicki, Xavier; Docquier, Frédéric - 2004

In this paper, we investigate the consequences of the rise in educational attainment on the US generational accounts. We build on the 1995 accounts of Gokhale et al. (1999) and disaggregate them per schooling level. We show that low skill newborns are characterized by a negative generational...

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Overeducation and Skill Endowments The Role of School Achievement and Vocational Training Quality

Büchel, Felix; Pollmann-Schult, Matthias - 2001

theory in a more sophisticated manner, by means of a more differentiated survey of the skill endowments of workers. Our …

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Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment: Explanations for the Increase in Part-time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany

Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2001

Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...

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Returns to apprenticeship training in Austria: evidence from failed firms

Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, … - 2007

Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. There is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and there might be an important element of selection in who obtains an apprenticeship, and what type. To...

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The duration of paid parental leave and children's scholastic performance

Liu, Qian; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009

We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish children born after August 1988 to evaluate the effects of prolonged parental leave on children's...

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Following in your parents' footsteps? Empirical analysis of matched parent-offspring test scores

Brown, Sarah; McIntosh, Steven; Taylor, Karl - 2009

In this paper, we explore whether an intergenerational relationship exists between the reading and mathematics test scores, taken at age 7, of a cohort of individuals born in 1958 and the equivalent test scores of their offspring measured in 1991. Our results suggest that how the parent performs...

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Intergenerational transmission of education: An alert to empirical implementation

Pereira, Pedro Telhado - 2010

The intergenerational transmission of education is certainly a problem that continues to challenge most countries. The level of education that an individual rises to is linked to the education level(s) of her/his parents. This note serves as an alert to researchers undertaking empirical...

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The economics of international differences in educational achievement

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...

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Does education matter for economic growth?

Delgado, Michael S.; Henderson, Daniel J.; Parmeter, … - 2012

Empirical growth regressions typically include mean years of schooling as a proxy for human capital. However, empirical research often finds that the sign and significance of schooling depends on the sample of observations or the specification of the model. We use a nonparametric local-linear...

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Does Management Matter in Schools?

Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

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