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We use the high IQ Terman sample to estimate relationships between education, socioemotional skills, and health … subjects, education is linked to better health-related outcomes, in contrast to previous evidence. Conscientiousness, Openness …
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Political regimes influence contents of education and criteria used to select and evaluate students. We study the … impact of a socialist education on the likelihood of obtaining a college degree and on several labor market outcomes by … exploiting the reorganization of the school system in East Germany after reunification. Our identification strategy utilizes …
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system, but pursue different education policies. The same results found previously across countries hold within Germany … legal differences. This paper uses cross-state variation in Germany, whose sixteen states share the same language and legal …
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Survey in Germany since 2014. This paper summarizes selected key findings on the German publics' preferences for education …To better understand the political economy constraints of education policy, we have conducted the annual ifo Education … policies ranging from early childhood education and schools to the apprenticeship system, universities, and lifelong learning …
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This paper analyzes how electoral incentives affected the performance of a major decentralized conditional cash transfer program intended on reducing school dropout rates among children of poor households in Brazil. We show that while this federal program successfully reduced school dropout by 8...
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This paper estimates the marginal returns to college for individuals induced to enroll in college by different marginal policy changes. The recent instrumental variables literature seeks to estimate this parameter, but in general it does so only under strong assumptions that are tested and found...
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the macro literature on education and growth. The fraction of the population more efficient at producing skills in the …) effect education on growth measured in the empirical literature …
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This paper studies how the gradual suspension of an employment guarantee scheme for secondary and post-secondary graduates has affected intergenerational mobility across well-educated cohorts in Egypt. The empirical results support suggestive evidence in the Middle East of a decline in social...
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The need for education to help every child rather than focus on average attainment has become a more central part of … combined direct and indirect (spillover) effects. Thus, the analysis suggests that a key way that English education purports to …
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We evaluate a program that aims to improve children's reading skills by providing classes with age-appropriate reading material and incentivizing children to read through a 31 day read-a-thon. During the read-a-thon, the program significantly increases the propensity of children to read, causing...
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