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The intergenerational elasticity of earnings : exploring the mechanisms

Bolt, Uta; French, Eric; Hentall-MacCuish, Jamie; … - 2021

Using data covering a single cohort’s ﬁrst 55 years of life, we show that most of the intergenerational elasticity of earnings (IGE) is explained by differences in: years of schooling, cognitive skills, investments of parental time and school quality, and family circumstances during...

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Microeconometric analysis of individual and institutional determinants of education and occupational choice

Obergruber, Natalie - 2018

This study analyses which individual and institutional factors (causally) influence individuals in their educational career and in their choice for an occupation. Chapter 2 explores consequences of parental separation for cognitive skill development of children. In the year before parental...

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Unbundling returns to degrees and skills : evidence from postsecondary education in Colombia

Busso, Matias; Muñoz, Juan Sebastián; Montaño, Sebastián - 2020

This paper shows that returns to education are not enough to capture all the returns to human capital. Using longitudinal data of all college graduates in Colombia, we estimate labor market returns to postsecondary degrees and to various skillsincluding literacy, numeracy, foreign language,...

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School curricula, educational trajectories, and labor market outcomes

Arold, Benjamin W. - 2022

the US does not only affect related knowledge of students and adulthood attitudes, but also translates into high …

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Determinants and consequences of student test scores : evidence from international, big, and text data

Sancassani, Pietro - 2023

Pietro Sancassani prepared this study while he was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo Institut. The study was completed in March 2023 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the LMU Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays and...

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Improving educational outcomes : analyses of intervention and public opinion

Wedel, Katharina - 2024

Katharina Wedel prepared this study while she was working at the Center for the Economics of Education at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in September 2023 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at LMU Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that...

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Migration, cultural diversity and innovation : a European perspective

Bosetti, Valentina; Cattaneo, Cristina; Verdolini, Elena - 2012

This paper analyses the effect of skilled migration on two measures of innovation, patenting and citations of … scientific publications, in a panel of 20 European countries. Skilled migrants positively contribute to the knowledge formation … associated with higher levels of knowledge creation, measured either by the number of patents applied for through the Patent …

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Teacher quality and learning outcomes in kindergarten

Araujo, María Caridad; Carneiro, Pedro; Cruz Aguayo, … - 2016

We assigned two cohorts of kindergarten students, totaling more than 24,000 children, to teachers within schools with a rule that is as-good-as-random. We collected data on children at the beginning of the school year, and applied 12 tests of math, language and executive function (EF) at the end...

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A classical model of education, growth and distribution

Dutt, Amitava Krishna; Veneziani, Roberto - 2017

We develop a classical macroeconomic model to examine the growth and distributional consequences of education. Contrary to the received wisdom, we show that human capital accumulation is not necessarily growth-inducing and inequality-reducing. Expansive education policies may foster growth and...

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The path through : early COVID-19 job loss and labour market trajectories in Austria

Jestl, Stefan; Tverdostup, Maryna - 2024

This paper examines the socio-demographic disparities evident in the early labour market response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Austria, relying on the register-based labour market career dataset from the Austrian Micro Data Center (AMDC) for the 2018-2021 period. The analysis focuses on the...

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