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Decomposing outcome differences between HBCU and non-HBCU institutions

De Zeeuw, Mels; Fazili, Sameera; Hotchkiss, Julie L. - 2020

This paper investigates differences in outcomes between historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) and traditional college and universities (non-HBCUs) using a standard Oaxaca/Blinder decomposition. This method decomposes differences in observed educational and labor market outcomes...

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Learning to Take Risks? The Effect of Education on Risk-Taking in Financial Markets

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Lundborg, Petter; … - 2015

We investigate whether acquiring more education when young has long-term effects on risk-taking behavior in financial markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is substantial evidence that more educated people are more likely to invest in the stock market....

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Skills, education and fertility and the confounding impact of family background

Kramarz, Francis; Nordström Skans, Oskar; Rosenqvist, Olof - 2019

Skilled and educated women have on average fewer children and are more likely to remain childless than the less skilled and educated. Using rich Swedish register data, we show that these negative associations found in most previous studies largely disappear if we remove the impact of family...

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Skilled or educated? Educational reforms, human capital and earnings

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Castelnovo, Paolo; Checchi, Daniele; … - 2016

We use OECD-PIAAC data to estimate the earnings effects of both years of education and of numerical skills. Our identification strategy exploits differential exposure to educational reforms across birth cohorts and countries. We find that education has the strongest earnings effect. A one...

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Early Socialization and the Gender Wage Gap

Getik, Demid; Meier, Armando N. - 2021

We study the impact of early socialization on gender inequality in the labor market. To this end, we link the gender … age earn more later on, leading to a reduction in the gender wage gap. We explore mechanisms and find that women exposed … to a more female-dominated environment select into less gender-stereotypical occupations with higher wage potential. The …

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The causal impact of socio-emotional skills training on educational success

Sorrenti, Giuseppe; Zölitz, Ulf; Ribeaud, Denis; … - 2020

We study the long-term effects of a randomized intervention targeting children's socio-emotional skills. The classroom-based intervention for primary school children has positive impacts that persist for over a decade. Treated children become more likely to complete academic high school and...

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Preferences, confusion and competition

Hefti, Andreas; Liu, Shuo; Schmutzler, Armin - 2020

Do firms seek to make the market transparent,or do they confuse the consumers in their product perceptions? We show that the answer to this question depends decisively on preference heterogeneity. Contrary to the well-studied case of homogeneous goods, confusion is not necessarily an equilibrium...

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Productivity gap between tradable and non-tradable industries and duality in higher education

Brezis, Elise S.; Brand, Gilad - 2017

Over the last decades, productivity in the tradable sector rose substantially, while in the non-tradable sector, output per worker has remained the same, despite a similar increase in human capital in both sectors. This paper emphasizes that duality in higher education as well as heterogeneous...

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Elitism in higher education and inequality: Why are the Nordic countries so special?

Brezis, Elise S. - 2018

This paper shows that countries with high levels of "elitism" in higher-education are the countries displaying high levels of inequality. In other words, a higher level of "elitism", i.e., large gap in quality of universities, and tight selection in top universities leads to a wider gap in wages...

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Leadership experiences, labor market entry, and early career trajectories

Lundin, Martin; Nordström Skans, Oskar; Zetterberg, Pär - 2016

We study how leadership experiences before labor market entry affect subsequent labor market performance, using a regression discontinuity design to isolate the causal effects. The design is applied to elections of representatives at Swedish student union (SU) councils. Archive data on winning...

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