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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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This paper studies a model where student effort and talent interact with parental and teachers' investments, as well as with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for example, that an improvement in parental outside...
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This paper investigates the relationship between education and training provided by the firm, both on the job and off … and negative relationship between educational attainment and on the job training and no significant relationship between … education and off the job training. We also find that education and training are technical complements, especially in the case …
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Roughly one third of a cohort drop out of high school across OECD countries, and developing effective tools to address prime-aged high school dropouts is a key policy question. We leverage high quality Norwegian register data, and for identification we exploit reforms enabling access to high...
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This paper analyzes the effect of educational mismatch on wages, using a rich panel dataset of workers in the major … penalty of similar magnitude to the return on each year of schooling attained. Interestingly, when we split the sample by age …, we find that the wages of people aged under 35 basically depend on the level of education attained, while those of …
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substantial progress in education. However, average workers¿ earnings have stagnated and earnings for workers with more schooling … the same time that the relative supply of workers with more years of schooling has increased, misallocation of resources …, earnings differentials across schooling levels would increase, as would the returns to education. In parallel, earnings …
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Delivery of vocational education in schools is a controversial issue around the world and attempts to improve it have been tried for decades. A substantive innovation in vocational education provision came about in 2010 in England when a new form of hybrid schools was introduced that combine...
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unemployment and other social problems, however, the Mezzogiorno is distinguished by pervasive manipulation of standardized test …
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This paper estimates the effect of home high-speed internet on national test scores of students at age 14. We combine comprehensive information on the telecom network, administrative student records, house prices and local amenities in England in a fuzzy spatial regression discontinuity design...
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This paper evaluates the impact of the Bono Trabajador Activo, a training voucher program in Chile, on workers' labor … market outcomes. Using detailed administrative datasets of the National Employment Service and the Unemployment Insurance …
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