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Money matters: evidence from a large-scale randomized field experiment with vouchers for adult training
Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2009
This paper presents the results of a randomized experiment analyzing the use of vouchers for adult training. In 2006, 2,400 people were issued with a training voucher which they were entitled to use in payment for a training course of their choice. User behavior was compared with a control group...
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Effects of adult education vouchers on the labor market: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Woessmann, Ludger; … - 2011
Lifelong learning is often promoted in ageing societies, but little is known about its returns or governments' ability to advance it. This paper evaluates the effects of a large-scale randomized field experiment issuing vouchers for adult education in Switzerland. We find no significant average...
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A second chance at education for early school leavers
Polidano, Cain; Tabasso, Domenico; Tseng, Yi-Ping - 2012
Despite efforts to engage youth in education, there have been only modest improvements in the rates of school … Survey of Australian Youth and duration models that control for unobserved heterogeneity, our results suggest that programs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287610
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Might not be a tomorrow: a multi-methods approach to anticipated early death and youth crime
Brezina, Timothy; Tekin, Erdal; Topalli, Volkan - 2008
factor to youth crime and violence. Young people who perceive a high probability of early death, it is argued, may have … early death and youth crime, this support remains tentative. Moreover, a number of questions remain regarding the … that link anticipated early death to youth crime. In this paper, we address the limitations of previous studies using a …
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Children and parents time use: empirical evidence on investment in human capital in France, Italy and Germany
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Fontainha, Elsa; Monfardini, Chiara - 2008
We analyze a mechanism that has been disregarded in the literature on parental investment in children, as little attention has been devoted to the choices made by children themselves. We model directly time use by youngsters into activities related to the acquisition of human capital,...
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Catch me if you can: education and catch-up in the industrial revolution
Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009
Existing evidence, mostly from British textile industries, rejects the importance of formal education for the Industrial Revolution. We provide new evidence from Prussia, a technological follower, where early-19th-century institutional reforms created the conditions to adopt the exogenously...
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The Marginal Income Effect of Education on Happiness: Estimating the Direct and Indirect Effects of Compulsory Schooling on Well-Being in Australia
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Wooden, Mark - 2013
Many economists and educators favour public support for education on the premise that education improves the overall well-being of citizens. However, little is known about the causal pathways through which education shapes people's subjective well-being (SWB). This paper explores the direct and...
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When the cat is near, the mice won't play: The effect of external examiners in Italian schools
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2012
We use a natural experiment to show that the presence of an external examiner in standardized school tests reduces the proportion of correct answers in monitored classes by 5.5 to 8.5% - depending on the grade and the test - with respect to classes in schools with no external monitor. We find...
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Where Are the Returns to Lifelong Learning?
Coelli, Michael; Tabasso, Domenico - 2015
We investigate the labour market determinants and outcomes of adult participation in formal education (lifelong learning) in Australia, a country with high levels of adult education. Employing longitudinal data and fixed effects methods allows identification of effects on outcomes free of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401787
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Can Voluntary Adult Education Reduce Unemployment? Causal Evidence from East Germany after Reunification
Rupieper, Li Kathrin Kaja; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2024
After the German Reunification in 1990, East Germany transitioned from a centrally planned economic system to a market economy. At the time, upskilling through adult education was deemed essential for the successful integration of the workforce into the labor market. Besides substantial...
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