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The intergenerational elasticity of earnings : exploring the mechanisms

Bolt, Uta; French, Eric; Hentall-MacCuish, Jamie; … - 2021

Using data covering a single cohort’s ﬁrst 55 years of life, we show that most of the intergenerational elasticity of earnings (IGE) is explained by differences in: years of schooling, cognitive skills, investments of parental time and school quality, and family circumstances during...

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Unbundling returns to degrees and skills : evidence from postsecondary education in Colombia

Busso, Matias; Muñoz, Juan Sebastián; Montaño, Sebastián - 2020

This paper shows that returns to education are not enough to capture all the returns to human capital. Using longitudinal data of all college graduates in Colombia, we estimate labor market returns to postsecondary degrees and to various skillsincluding literacy, numeracy, foreign language,...

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In-firm training, innovation and productivity : the case of Caribbean small island developing states

Mohan, Preeya; Strobl, Eric; Watson, Patrick K. - 2017

In-firm training is a crucial innovative activity in modern knowledge-based economies which face increasing global …. This study uses the World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES) 2010 and Compete Caribbean's Productivity Technology Innovation … play a relatively small role and may not even matter for innovation and productivity. …

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Teacher quality and learning outcomes in kindergarten

Araujo, María Caridad; Carneiro, Pedro; Cruz Aguayo, … - 2016

We assigned two cohorts of kindergarten students, totaling more than 24,000 children, to teachers within schools with a rule that is as-good-as-random. We collected data on children at the beginning of the school year, and applied 12 tests of math, language and executive function (EF) at the end...

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A classical model of education, growth and distribution

Dutt, Amitava Krishna; Veneziani, Roberto - 2017

We develop a classical macroeconomic model to examine the growth and distributional consequences of education. Contrary to the received wisdom, we show that human capital accumulation is not necessarily growth-inducing and inequality-reducing. Expansive education policies may foster growth and...

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The effect of reducing welfare access on employment, health, and children's long-run outcomes

Hicks, Jeffrey; Simard-Duplain, Gaëlle; Green, David A.; … - 2023

Welfare caseloads in North America halved following reforms in the 1990s and 2000s. We study how this shift affected families by linking Canadian welfare records to tax returns, medical spending, educational attainment, and crime data. We find substantial and heterogeneous employment responses...

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The role of education and income inequality on environmental quality : a panel data analysis of the EKC hypothesis on OECD

Maranzano, Paolo; Bento, João Paulo Cerdeira; Manera, … - 2021

We study the impact of human capital and the level of education on the pollution-income relationship controlling for income inequality in 17 OECD countries. By applying an innovative approach to country grouping, based on the temporal evolution of income inequality and clustering techniques to...

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Barriers to immigrant assimilation evidence on grading bias in Ecuadorian high schools

Rangel, Marcos A.; Marotta, Luana; Van der Werf, Cynthia; … - 2024

We investigate the assimilation of immigrant youth in Ecuador. Focusing on formal schooling and employing administrative data from high schools, we document subtle ways by which assessment biases against students with an immigrant background play a significant role in this assimilation process....

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The effect of educational mismatch on wages using European panel data

Iriondo, Iñaki; Pérez Amaral, Teodosio - 2013

This paper analyzes the effect of educational mismatch on wages, using a rich panel dataset of workers in the major euro area countries from 2006 to 2009, drawn from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (Eurostat). We use a consistent estimator to address the two...

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Re-estimating the gender gap in Colombian academic performance

Munoz, Juan Sebastián - 2014

This paper presents evidence of the relationship between the disparity in the academic performance of boys and girls in Colombia and the country s excessively high school dropout rates. By using the OLS and trimming for bounds techniques, and based on data derived from the PISA 2009 database,...

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