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Human capital potential of India's future workforce
Mehdi, Ali; Chaudhry, Divya - 2015
. However, such concern has been largely missing as far as the future workforce is concerned. This paper discusses India … preprimary education. In conclusion, India will have to focus, inter alia, on early health and preschooling (soft skill …
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The effects of financial aid and returns information in selective and less selective schools : experimental evidence from Chile
Busso, Matias; Dinkelman, Taryn; Martínez Alvear, Claudia - 2016
Schools that provide higher education often belong to either a merit-based selective system or an open-access less selective system. This paper presents the results of a field experiment that provided Grade 12 students in Chile with tailored information about financial aid and average earnings...
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How much does degree choice matter?
Britton, Jack; Erve, Laura van der; Belfield, Chris; … - 2021
Using a large and novel administrative dataset, this paper investigates variation in returnsto different higher education ‘degrees’ (subject-institution combinations) in the United King-dom. Conditioning on a rich set background characteristics, it finds substantial variation inreturns, even...
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Who benefits from tuition-free, top-quality universities? : evidence from Brazil
Duryea, Suzanne; Ribas, Rafael Pérez; Sampaio, Breno; … - 2023
This paper investigates the long-term impact on earnings of attending a tuition-free, top-quality university in Brazil. We identify the causal effect through a sharp discontinuity in an admission process based on test scores. If admitted, low-income students are found to increase their earnings...
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Digging deep : resource exploitation and higher education
Balza, Lenin H.; Rios Rueda, Camilo de los; Rivera, … - 2022
Do resource-extraction booms crowd out postsecondary education? We explore this question by examining the higher education-related decisions of Chilean high school graduates during the 2000s commodities boom. We find mineral extraction increases a person's likelihood of enrolling in...
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Can higher education policy boost intergenerational mobility? : evidence from an empirical matching model
Britton, Jack; Dias, Mónica Costa; Goll, David - 2023
Higher education policy potentially has an important role in improving intergenerational income mobility. We use rich administrative data to estimate a novel two-sided matching model of sorting into field and institution within higher education. We use it to simulate a wide set of policies aimed...
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Long-term gains from longer school days
Domínguez, Patricio; Ruffini, Krista - 2020
This paper examines whether additional time in elementary and secondary school affects economic well-being in adulthood. This paper explores a large-scale reform that increased the Chilean school day by 30 percent between 1997 and 2010, with access to longer school days varying by cohort and...
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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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Educación y desarrollo en México : una historia de baja capacidad de aprovechamiento del capital humano
Székely, Miguel; Flores, Iván - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011959461
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Finance and the reallocation of scientific, engineering and mathematical talent
Marin, Giovanni; Vona, Francesco - 2022
The US financial sector has become a magnet for the brightest graduates in the science, technology, engineering and … mathematical fields (STEM). We provide quantitative bases for this anecdotal fact for the US, over the period 1980-2019 and with a …-run educational upgrading of finance was biased towards STEM graduates, especially for postgraduates, and accelerated in the last …
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