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We study the impact on learning of a child's rank in the classroom using a unique experiment from Ecuador. Within each school, students were randomly assigned to classrooms in every grade between kindergarten and 6th grade.Therefore, two students with the same ability can have different...
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form of hybrid schools was introduced that combine general and vocational education: University Technical Colleges (UTCs …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 …
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. Consequently, too few workers may acquire skills. This allows for the possibility that subsidizing education is welfare improving …-between subsidizing education and thereby reducing unemployment and optimizing welfare may be eliminated. We analyse this issue in a …
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different incentives to acquire education for the two ethnic groups. Using rich Danish administrative data, this paper finds … evidence that greater negative attitudes increase incentives for males to acquire education and that networking also increases … immigrant education. …
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also provides a novel microfoundation for peer effects, with empirical implications for welfare and different education …
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Canonical human capital theories posit that education, by enhancing worker skills, reduces the likelihood that a worker … education records from 1987 through 2002 to nationally representative surveys conducted before and after the onset of COVID-19 … in Barbados to explore the causal impact of improved education on job loss during this period. Using a regression …
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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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In 2012, the Brazilian government passed a law that mandated all federal higher education institutions to implement a … university programs. However, I find no evidence that quota-students affect the dropout of non-quota students. …
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