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Incentives and Effort in the Public Sector : Have U.S. Education Reforms Increased Teachers? Work Hours?
Stoddard, Christiana; Kuhn, Peter - 2004
Beyond some contracted minimum, salaried workers? hours are largely chosen at the worker?s discretion and should respond to the strength of contract incentives. Accordingly, we consider the response of teacher hours to accountability and school choice laws introduced in U.S. public schools over...
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Education, health and mortality: Evidence from a social experiment
Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Simeonova, Emilia - 2012
We study the effect of a compulsory education reform in Sweden on adult health and mortality. The reform was implemented by municipalities between 1949 and 1962 as a social experiment and implied an extension of compulsory schooling from 7 or 8 years depending on municipality to 9 years...
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For one more year with you”: changes in compulsory schooling, education and the distribution of wages in Europe
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Weber, Guglielmo - 2007
Using data from 12 European countries and the variation across countries and over time in the changes of minimum school leaving age, we study the effects of the quantity of education on the distribution of earnings. We find that compulsory school reforms significantly affect educational...
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Access to higher education and inequality: the Chinese experiment
Wang, Xiaojun; Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Li, Shi - 2007
returns to schooling for college graduates during China's reform between 1988 and 2002. We find that there were substantial …
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Economic reform, education expansion, and earnings inequality for urban males in China, 1988 - 2007
Meng, Xin; Shen, Kailing; Xue, Sen - 2010
In the past 20 years the average real earnings of Chinese urban male workers have increased by 350 per cent. Accompanying this unprecedented growth is a considerable increase in earnings inequality. Between 1988 and 2007 the variance of log earnings increased from 0.27 to 0.48, a 78 per cent...
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Selection Bias, Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Returns to Education: Evidence from China in 2000
Heckman, James Joseph; Li, Xuesong - 2003
China when allowing for heterogeneous returns among individuals selecting into schooling based on these differences. We use …% annually) in 2000 for young people in urban areas of six provinces of China. The effect of college on those who go is 13%. Our … return to education has increased substantially in China, compared to the returns measured in the 1980?s and the early 1990?s. …
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The Effects of Longer School Days on Mothers' Labor Force Participation
Berthelon, Matias; Kruger, Diana; Oyarzún, Melanie - 2015
Lack of adequate childcare is a main reason women cite for not participating in the labor force. We investigate the effect of a reform that lengthened school schedules from half to full days in Chile - essentially providing zero-cost childcare - on different maternal labor participation...
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Does Teacher Testing Raise Teacher Quality? : Evidence from State Certification Requirements
Angrist, Joshua D.; Guryan, Jonathan - 2005
The education reform movement includes efforts to raise teacher quality through stricter certification and licensing provisions. Most US states now require public school teachers to pass a standardized test such as the Praxis. Although any barrier to entry is likely to raise wages in the...
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Education and family background: Mechanisms and policies
Björklund, Anders; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2010
In every society for which we have data, people's educational achievement is positively correlated with their parents' education or with other indicators of their parents' socioeconomic status. This topic is central in social science, and there is no doubt that research has intensified during...
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Improvements in Schooling Opportunities and Teen Births
Garcez, Lucas N.; Padilla-Romo, María; Peluffo, Cecilia; … - 2024
We study the causal relationship between educational attainment and teenage birth rates by focusing on a large-scale, country-wide reform that made high school compulsory and removed previously existing school capacity constraints in Mexico. Relying on administrative data on schools and births,...
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