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Harrison, Glenn W.; Lau, Morten I.; Yoo, Hong Il - 2019

Longitudinal experiments allow one to evaluate the temporal stability of latent preferences, but raise concerns about … stability in risk preferences using a remarkable data set that combines socio-demographic information from the Danish Civil … attrition changes inferences about risk preferences in an economically and statistically significant manner. Estimates of risk …

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Employers' skills requirements in the Austrian labour market : on the relative importance of ICT, cognitive and non-cognitive skills over the past 15 years

Leitner, Sandra M.; Reiter, Oliver - 2020

This paper analyses job advertisements to identify the particular skills, abilities and characteristics that are in demand on the Austrian labour market. It takes a novel approach and uses information extracted from over 1.5 million job advertisements over the past 15 years from Austria's...

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Motivation, resources and the organization of the school system

Albornoz, Facundo; Berlinski, Samuel G.; Cabrales, Antonio - 2016

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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Unbundling returns to degrees and skills : evidence from postsecondary education in Colombia

Busso, Matias; Muñoz, Juan Sebastián; Montaño, Sebastián - 2020

This paper shows that returns to education are not enough to capture all the returns to human capital. Using longitudinal data of all college graduates in Colombia, we estimate labor market returns to postsecondary degrees and to various skillsincluding literacy, numeracy, foreign language,...

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Exploiting discontinuities in secondary school attendance to evaluate value added

Britton, Jack; Clark, Damon; Lee, Ines - 2023

We use a new empirical strategy to test various measures of school effectiveness in England. Our approach exploits discontinuities in attendance probabilities that occur at unpredictable distance cutoffs used as tiebreakers in admissions processes for oversubscribed schools. We show that raw,...

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