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Returns to skills or returns to tasks? : a comment on Hanushek et al. (2015)
Christl, Michael; Köppl-Turyna, Monika - 2017
We comment on the work of Hanushek et al. (2015) and show that returns to skills are very heterogeneous and depend crucially on the tasks performed in the workplace, in line with the critique by Acemoglu and Autor (2011). Depending on the type of tasks performed at work, as well as on...
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Education inequalities in Latin America and the Caribbean
Fernández, Raquel; Pagés, Carmen; Székely, Miguel; … - 2023
Education is a crucial asset for a country's economic prospects and for its inhabitants. In addition to its direct … (generated by, e.g., technological or climatic change) among other benefits. In this chapter, we study education inequality in … interaction of education inequality with other forms of inequality, primarily income and labor market outcomes. Our analysis is …
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From teacher quality to teaching quality : instructional productivity and teaching practices in the US
Briole, Simon - 2019
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Economic growth and the cultural transmission of attitudes towards education
Varvarigos, Dimitrios - 2017
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What wages do people expect for vocational and academic education backgrounds in Switzerland?
Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra - 2022
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Explaining cross-cohort differences in life cycle earnings
Kong, Yu-Chien; Ravikumar, B.; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2015
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Math skills, selection in training firms, and post-training wages
Gholami, Mahdi; Mühlemann, Samuel - 2024
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The impact of juvenile conviction on human capital and labor market outcomes
Golan, Limor; Hai, Rong; Wabiszewski, Hayley - 2021
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Teacher hiring instruments and teacher value added : evidence from Peru
Bertoni, Eleonora; Elacqua, Gregory; Méndez, Carolina; … - 2020
In this article, we explore whether the evaluation instruments used to recruit teachers in the national teacher hiring process in Peru are good predictors of teacher effectiveness. To this end, we estimate teacher value-added (TVA) measures for public primary school teachers in 2018 and test for...
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Early skill gap effects on long-run outcomes and parental investments
Celhay, Pablo A.; Gallegos, Sebastián - 2019
This paper examines the effects of skill advantages at age six on different types of parental investments, and long-run outcomes up to age 27. We exploit exogenous variation in skills due to school entry rules, combining 20 years of Chilean administrative records with a regression discontinuity...
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