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School quality and family background in Italy
Brunello, Giorgio; Checchi, Daniele - 2003
We study if the combined significant reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio and increase in parental education observed in Italy between the end of IIWW and the end of 1980s had a significant impact on the educational attainment and labor market returns of a representative sample of Italians born...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011589663
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The effect of educational mismatch on wages using European panel data
Iriondo, Iñaki; Pérez Amaral, Teodosio - 2013
This paper analyzes the effect of educational mismatch on wages, using a rich panel dataset of workers in the major euro area countries from 2006 to 2009, drawn from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (Eurostat). We use a consistent estimator to address the two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687794
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152937
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Are long hospitalizations substituting primary and long-term care? : evidence from Brazil and Mexico
Aranco, Natalia; Bauhoff, Sebastian; Schwarz, Natalie; … - 2024
hospital patients (65 years and older) in Brazil and Mexico. We develop a continuum-of-care conceptual framework based on prior … the inappropriate days can be attributed to hospital inefficiency (36% in Brazil and 49% in Mexico), an important share is … days in Brazil and 7% in Mexico. In a back-of-the-envelope calculation, we estimate that providing six weeks of long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015051366
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Preschool education in Brazil : does public supply crowd out private enrollment?
Bastos, Paulo; Straume, Odd Rune - 2013
data for municipalities in Brazil from 2000-2006, where federal transfers to local governments change discontinuously with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246483
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Does technical education improve academic outcomes? : evidence from Brazil
Elacqua, Gregory; Navarro-Palau, Patricia; Prada, Maria … - 2019
, Brazil, to identify the impact of technical education during high school on student academic outcomes. We find that students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012117510
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Do multiple school jobs affect teacher performance? : evidence from Brazil
Elacqua, Gregory; Marotta, Luana - 2019
one school. We use longitudinal data of students and teachers from the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, over a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012117513
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Teacher transfers and the disruption of teacher staffing in the city of Sao Paulo
Elacqua, Gregory; Rosa, Leonardo - 2023
This paper analyzes preferences for certain school attributes among in-service teachers. We explore a centralized matching process in the city of Sao Paulo that teachers must use when transferring schools. Because teachers have to list and rank their preferences for schools, we can estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014471227
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Ageing poorly? : accounting for the decline in earnings inequality in Brazil, 1995-2012
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Firpo, Sérgio Pinheiro; … - 2017
The Gini coefficient of labor earnings in Brazil fell by nearly a fifth between 1995 and 2012, from 0.50 to 0.41. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011661672
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Impact evaluation of the job youth training program Projoven
Díaz, Juan José; Rosas, David - 2016
This paper brings new evidence on the impact of The Peruvian Job Youth Training Program (Projoven). Compared with prior evaluations of the program, this one has several advantages. This is the first experimental impact evaluation of Projoven, and also the first to measure impacts over a longer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472128