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Machin, Stephen J. - 2012

We present new evidence on the causal impact of education on crime, by considering a large expansion of the UK post …-compulsory education system that occurred in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The education expansion raised education levels across the … whole education distribution and, in particular for our analysis, at the bottom end enabling us to develop an instrumental …

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The Earnings Effect of Education at Community Colleges

Marcotte, Dave E. - 2006

In this paper, I make use of data from the 2000 follow-up of the National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS) post …-secondary education transcript files to extend what is known about the value of education at community colleges. I examine the effects of …

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American Education in the Age of Mass Migrations 1870-1930

Murtin, Fabrice - 2009

This paper derives original series of average years of schooling in the United States 1870-1930, which take into account the impact of mass migrations on the US educational level. We reconstruct the foreign-born US population by age and by country of origin, while combining data on the flow of...

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Does Education Reduce the Risk of Hypertension? Estimating the Biomarker Effect of Compulsory Schooling in England

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2010

This paper estimates the exogenous effect of schooling on reduced incidence of hypertension. Using the changes in the minimum school-leaving age law in the United Kingdom from age 14 to 15 in 1947, and from age 15 to 16 in 1973, as sources of exogenous variation in schooling, the regression...

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Estimating Complementarity between Education and Training

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jorgen; Kristensen, Nicolai - 2021

permanent endowments as well as on education. We find evidence of statistically significant complementarity, i.e. the higher …

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Employment and Education Policy for YoungPeople in the EU: What Can New Member StatesLearn from Old Member States?

Pastore, Francesco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

capitalendowment via a deep reform of education and training systems... …

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Estimating the Need for PhDs in theAcademic Sector via a Survey of Employers

Masso, Jaan; Eamets, Raul; Kanep, Hanna - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

2007-2012 using a survey of employers, such as universities,institutions of applied higher education and research …

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Time-to-Degree and the Business Cycle

Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

When students themselves enjoy large degrees of freedom in determining the duration oftheir studies, it results in a fairly large degree of interindividual variance in terms of time-todegree.This paper investigates individual time-to-degree in a model where studentsdetermine the optimum...

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Human Capital Spillovers and Economic Performancein the Workplace in 2004: Some British Evidence

Metcalfe, Renuka; Sloane, Peter J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper considers the impact of education and training on both individual and co-workerpay and establishment …

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Exit Exams and High School Dropout

Marcotte, Dave E. - 2011

In this paper, I consider the impact of the expansion of exams students must pass in order to graduate high school on dropout rates. "Exit exams," as these tests are known, have become more common, and more difficult. These exams are controversial, with opponents claiming they drive marginal...

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