Showing 1 - 10 of 4,589
This paper estimates the impact of elite school attendance on long-run outcomes including completed education, income …, we find that elite school attendance had large impacts on completed education. For women, we find that elite school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468138
This paper estimates the impact of elite school attendance on long-run outcomes including completed education, income …, we find that elite school attendance had large impacts on completed education. For women, we find that elite school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011078401
students compelled to stay on in education as a result of this compulsory school leaving rule attain higher qualification …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261989
students compelled to stay on in education as a result of this compulsory school leaving rule attain higher qualification …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703340
The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised concerns that the skill development of boys may be more sensitive to family disadvantage than that of girls. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) data we find, as do...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180137
We show that grading standards for primary school exams in England have triggered an inflation of quality indicators in the national performance tables for almost two decades. The cumulative effects have resulted in significant differences in the quality signaled to parents for otherwise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011787011
We analyze the short- and long-term effects of the U.S. Vietnam-era military service on veterans' health outcomes using a restricted version of the National Health Interview Survey 1974-2013 and employing the draft lotteries as an instrumental variable (IV). We start by assessing whether the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497946
We investigate assortative mating on education using a sample of couples from the Health and Retirement Study. We … estimate a reduced-form linear matching function, which links wife's education to husband's education and both wife's and … husband's unobservable characteristics. Using OLS we find that an additional year in husband's education is associated with an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141200
We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source … of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on … the number of biological kids and the incidence of childlessness. We find that more education causes a substantial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280674
schooling changes as the source of exogenous variation. We impose external estimates of the direct effect of maternal education … findings suggest that the child's probability of post compulsory education decreases when born to a teenage mother, and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289950