Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 2,519
Cover Image
Schools, skills, and synapses
Heckman, James Joseph - 2008
This paper discusses (a) the role of cognitive and noncognitive ability in shaping adult outcomes, (b) the early emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged families, (c) the role of families in creating these abilities, (d)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274246
Cover Image
Modeling college major choices using elicited measures of expectations and counterfactuals
Arcidiacono, Peter; Hotz, V. Joseph; Kang, Songman - 2010
The choice of a college major plays a critical role in determining the future earnings of college graduates. Students make their college major decisions in part due to the future earnings streams associated with the different majors. We survey students about what their expected earnings would be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269452
Cover Image
A risk augmented mincer earnings equation? Taking stock
Hartog, Joop - 2009
We survey the literature on the Risk Augmented Mincer equation that seeks to estimate the compensation for uncertainty in the future wage to be earned after completing an education. There is wide empirical support for the predicted positive effect of wage variance and the negative effect of wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271303
Cover Image
The rate of return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program
Heckman, James Joseph; Moon, Seong Hyeok; Pinto, Rodrigo; … - 2009
This paper estimates the rate of return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program, an early intervention program targeted toward disadvantaged African-American youth. Estimates of the rate of return to the Perry program are widely cited to support the claim of substantial economic benefits from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274261
Cover Image
Schooling Family, Background, and Adoption: Does Family Income Matter?
Plug, Erik; Vijverberg, Wim P. M. - 2001
One would expect that family income is an important positive factor in the school attainment of children. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276954
Cover Image
Schooling, Family Background and Adoption: Is it Nature or is it Nurture?
Plug, Erik; Vijverberg, Wim P. M. - 2001
When parents are more educated, their children tend to receive more schooling as well. Does this occur because parental ability is passed on genetically or because more educated parents provide a better environment for children to flourish? Using an intergenerational sample of families, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276955
Cover Image
Labor-market returns to the GED using regression discontinuity analysis
Jepsen, Christopher; Mueser, Peter R.; Troske, Kenneth - 2012
We evaluate the labor-market returns to General Educational Development (GED) certification using state administrative data. We develop a fuzzy regression discontinuity (FRD) method to account for the fact that GED test takers can repeatedly retake the test until they pass it. Our technique can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287623
Cover Image
Does Management Matter in Schools?
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014
We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468154
Cover Image
The effect of school construction on test scores, school enrollment, and home prices
Neilson, Christopher; Zimmerman, Seth - 2011
This paper provides new evidence on the effect of school construction projects on home prices, academic achievement …, and public school enrollment. Taking advantage of the staggered implementation of a comprehensive school construction … school construction raised reading scores for elementary and middle school students by 0.027 standard deviations. For a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282353
Cover Image
The effect of product demand on inequality: Evidence from the US and the UK
Leonardi, Marco - 2010
This paper examines the relationship between product demand and the pattern of rising skill premia and rising employment of skilled workers in the US and the UK since the 1980s. If more skilled workers demand more skill-intensive goods, then an increase in relative skill supply will also induce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269763