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Behind the Gate Experiment : Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2014
Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate testable predictions regarding heterogeneous treatment effects from such programs. Using a large randomized evaluation in the United States, we find no strong or lasting effects on...
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Dynamic Skill Accumulation, Comparative Advantages, Compulsory Schooling, and Earnings
Belzil, Christian - 2011
We show that a calibrated dynamic skill accumulation model allowing for comparative advantages, can explain the weak (or negative) effects of schooling on productivity that have been recently reported (i) in the micro literature on compulsory schooling, ii) in the micro literature on estimating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117619
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Who Benefits from Kipp?
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2011
The nation's largest charter management organization is the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP). KIPP schools are emblematic of the No Excuses approach to public education, a highly standardized and widely replicated charter model that features a long school day, an extended school year, selective...
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Dynamic Skill Accumulation, Education Policies and the Return to Schooling
Belzil, Christian - 2017
Using a dynamic skill accumulation model of schooling and labor supply with learning-by-doing, we decompose early life-cycle wage growth of U.S. white males into four main sources: education, hours worked, cognitive skills (AFQT scores) and unobserved heterogeneity, and evaluate the effect of...
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Socioemotional Skills, Education, and Health-Related Outcomes of High-Ability Individuals
Savelyev, Peter A. - 2017
We use the high IQ Terman sample to estimate relationships between education, socioemotional skills, and health-related outcomes that include health behaviors, lifestyles, and health measures across the lifecycle. By both focusing on a high IQ sample and controlling for IQ in regression models,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940846
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Education Policies and Migration Across European Countries
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - 2016
This paper tests whether and how two education policies: (i) increasing the length of compulsory education and (ii) introducing foreign languages into compulsory school curricula, affect subsequent migration across European countries. We construct a novel data base that includes information on...
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(How) Do Non-Cognitive Skills Programs Improve Adolescent School Achievement? Experimental Evidence
Martins, Pedro S. - 2017
Non-cognitive skills programs may be an important policy option to improve the academic outcomes of adolescents. In this paper, we evaluate experimentally the EPIS program, which is based on bi-weekly individual or small-group non-cognitive mediation short meetings with low-performing students....
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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao - 2011
likely to become entrepreneurs. By not having taken this possible linkage into account, previous research has underestimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117187
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Badge of Honor or Scarlet Letter? Unpacking Investors' Judgment of Entrepreneurs' Past Failure
Zunino, Diego - 2017
Research shows that most ventures fail, yet it has devoted limited attention to the consequences of entrepreneurs' past …. Therefore, failure conveys ambiguous information about skill. We predict that investors will discount entrepreneurs that … of failure into luck and skill. Our results indicate that investors discount entrepreneurs who have experienced failure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947124
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Life Skills, Employability and Training for Disadvantaged Youth : Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation Design
Ibarraran, Pablo - 2012
This paper presents an impact evaluation of a revamped version of the Dominican youth training program Juventud y Empleo. The paper analyzes the impact of the program on traditional labor market outcomes and on outcomes related to youth behavior and life style, expectations about the future and...
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