Showing 1 - 10 of 240
In this paper, we examine whether adult education delays retirement and increases labour force participation among the … data from Sweden, we analyse transcripts from adult education for the period 1979-2004 and annual earnings 1982-2004. We … match samples of treated individuals, in adult education 1986-1989, and untreated on the propensity score. The timing of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273961
This report presents and describes an evaluation project of the most recent Swedish curriculum reform, Curriculum for the compulsory school, preschool class and the recreation centre, Lgr 11. The purpose of the evaluation project is to generate new knowledge concerning the influences of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440147
This study investigates the general equilibrium effects of a fertility shock under different intergenerational transfer schemes. The effects on lifetime income and utility for different generations, as well as the effects on factor prices, are analyzed in a three-period overlapping generations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321536
school and significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary education. We estimate the … the scores of students from families where parents had only basic education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273922
This paper studies optimal taxation of income and education when employers cannot observe workers' productivity and … workers signal their productivity to firms by choosing both quantity and quality of education. We characterize constrained …. Implementation through income and education dependent taxes is discussed, as well as education mandates. A key insight is that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014541065
This study examines the effects of super-fast internet connections on the academic achievement of students in upper secondary school. We link detailed register data on around 250,000 students to local levels of access to optic fiber broadband and estimate the effect of broadband on student GPA....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208797
In this paper we ask whether policies targeting a reduction in crime rates through changes in education outcomes can be … alternative policies. We develop an overlapping generation, life-cycle model with endogenous education and crime choices …. Education and crime depend on different dimensions of heterogeneity, which takes the form of differences in innate ability and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280784
Children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods tend to perform significantly worse in school compared to children growing up under more favorable circumstances. We examine the impact of a three-year program ("Coaching for Teaching") targeted at ten poorly performing lower secondary schools...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012039307
Girls typically have higher grades than boys in school and recent research suggests that part of this gender difference may be due to discrimination of boys. We rigorously test this in a field experiment where a random sample of the same tests in the Swedish language is subject to blind and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273910
new education policy reduces the probability of marriage and giving birth for teenage women substantially: the probability … effects of the education policy on the time until marriage and firstbirth persist beyond the completion of compulsory …-birth. Finally, we find that the education policy was more effective in reducing early marriage than a change in the Civil Code aimed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274427