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Which former professional football players become successful professional head coaches?

Balliauw, Matteo; Verheuge, Marco; Baert, Stijn - 2022

One of the potential avenues for former professional football players to pursue their career is to become a head coach of a club's first team. An important question is how to best prepare for such a reconversion. This letter is the first in the academic literature quantifying the association...

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The impact of internship experience during secondary education on schooling and labour market outcomes

Neyt, Brecht; Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2019

The literature on workplace learning in secondary education has mainly focussed on vocational education programmes. In … sequential outcomes by means of a dynamic discrete choice model. In line with the literature on vocational education programmes … this study, we examine the impact of internship experience in secondary education on a student’s schooling and early labour …

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Relative age effect on European adolescents' social network

Fumarco, Luca; Baert, Stijn - 2018

We contribute to the literature on relative age effects on pupils' (non-cognitive) skills formation by studying students' social network. We investigate data on European adolescents from the Health Behaviour in School Aged Children survey and use an instrumental variables approach to account for...

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Younger and dissatisfied? : relative age and life-satisfaction in adolescence

Fumarco, Luca; Baert, Stijn - 2018

This is the first study to investigate whether age gaps between classmates (that is, relative age) affect life-satisfaction gaps in adolescence. To this end, we analyse data from the multi-country Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) survey. We find evidence that relative age...

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Does student work really affect educational outcomes? : a review of the literature

Neyt, Brecht; Omey, Eddy; Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2017

We review the theories put forward, methodological approaches used, and empirical conclusions found in the multidisciplinary literature on the relationship between student employment and educational outcomes. A systematic comparison of the empirical work yields new insights that go beyond the...

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Modeling the effects of grade retention in high school

Cockx, Bart; Picchio, Matteo; Baert, Stijn - 2017

A dynamic discrete choice model is set up to estimate the effects of grade retention in high school, both in the short-run (end-of-year evaluation) and in the long-run (drop-out and delay). In contrast to other evaluation approaches, this model captures essential treatment heterogeneity and...

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