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The Long-Run Impacts of Early Childhood Education : Evidence from a Failed Policy Experiment
DeCicca, Philip - 2011
We investigate short and long-term effects of early childhood education using variation created by a unique policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124550
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Risky Business? The Effect of Majoring in Business on Earnings and Educational Attainment
Andrews, Rodney - 2017
during college, and it can influence the type of career chosen after postsecondary education ends. Business is one of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951884
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The Non-Market Benefits of Education and Ability
Heckman, James J. - 2017
This paper analyzes the non-market benefits of education and ability. Using a dynamic model of educational choice we … estimate returns to education that account for selection bias and sorting on gains. We investigate a range of non … patterns of returns that depend on the levels of schooling and ability. Unlike the monetary benefits of education, the benefits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946035
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Educational Inequality
Azuma, Yoshiaki; Grossman, Herschel I. - 2021
This paper develops a theoretical model that relates changes in educational inequality to the combined effects of innovations that have increased the relative demand for more educated labor and innovations that have increased ability premiums. Under the assumption that in the long run individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224925
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Schooling, Labor Force Quality, and Economic Growth
Hanushek, Eric A.; Kim, Dongwook - 2000
Human capital is almost always identified as a crucial ingredient for growing economies, but empirical investigations of cross-national growth have done little to clarify the dimensions of relevant human capital or any implications for policy. This paper concentrates on the importance of labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014158648
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Educational Screening and Occupational Earnings
Wolff, Edward N.; Hay, Joel - 2022
The educational screening hypothesis states that beyond a certain point schooling functions as a signaling device to identify pre-existing talents. We test for the presence of screening by comparing the schooling and earnings of self-employed workers and of those employed by others in a sample...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013310256
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School Tracking and Access to Higher Education Among Disadvantaged Groups
Malamud, Ofer - 2011
When students are tracked into vocational and academic secondary schools, access to higher education is usually … improve access to higher education for disadvantaged groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127752
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Going to a Better School : Effects and Behavioral Responses
Pop-Eleches, Cristian - 2011
This paper: i) estimates the effect that going to a better school has on students' academic achievement, and ii) explores whether this intervention induces behavioral responses on the part of children, their parents, and the school system. For the first task, we exploit almost 2,000 regression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128273
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Math or Science? Using Longitudinal Expectations Data to Examine the Process of Choosing a College Major
Stinebrickner, Todd R. - 2011
Due primarily to the difficulty of obtaining ideal data, much remains unknown about how college majors are determined. We take advantage of longitudinal expectations data from the Berea Panel Study to provide new evidence about this issue, paying particular attention to the choice of whether to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128602
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The Effect of Evaluation on Performance : Evidence from Longitudinal Student Achievement Data of Mid-Career Teachers
Taylor, Eric S. - 2011
The effect of evaluation on employee performance is traditionally studied in the context of the principal-agent problem. Evaluation can, however, also be characterized as an investment in the evaluated employee's human capital. We study a sample of mid-career public school teachers where we can...
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