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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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School productive performance and technology gaps : new evidence from PISA 2018
Capasso, Salvatore; Kaisari, Maria; Kounetas, Konstantinos - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014511670
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Do competition and ownership matter? : evidence from local public transport in Europe
Boitani, Andrea; Nicolini, Marcella; Scarpa, Carlo - 2010
transport sector affect their productivity. In order to compare different institutional regimes, we carry out a comparative … productivity, which we regress on firm and city characteristics. We find that when firms are totally or partially in public hands … their productivity is lower. Moreover, firms selected through competitive tendering display higher total factor productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008702341
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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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Re-estimating the gender gap in Colombian academic performance
Munoz, Juan Sebastián - 2014
dropout rate overestimates male performance means, creating a selection bias in the regular OLS estimation. In order to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246133
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Home broadband and human capital formation
Sanchis-Guarner, Rosa; Montalbán, José; Weinhardt, Felix - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012423667
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Good schools or good students? : evidence on school effects from universal random assignment of students to high schools
Bastos, Paulo; Cristia, Julian; Kim, Beomsoo; Malamud, Ofer - 2022
How much do schools differ in their effectiveness? Recent studies that seek to answer this question account for student sorting using random assignment generated by central allocation mechanisms or oversubscribed schools. However, the resulting estimates, while causal, may also reflect peer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495675
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The intergenerational elasticity of earnings : exploring the mechanisms
Bolt, Uta; French, Eric; Hentall-MacCuish, Jamie; … - 2021
Using data covering a single cohort’s first 55 years of life, we show that most of the intergenerational elasticity of earnings (IGE) is explained by differences in: years of schooling, cognitive skills, investments of parental time and school quality, and family circumstances during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012583343
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Agricultural productivity growth in Latin America and the Caribbean and other world regions : an analysis of climatic effects, convergence and catch-up
Lachaud, Michée Arnold; Bravo-Ureta, Boris E.; Ludena, … - 2015
This study estimates Climate Adjusted Total Factor Productivity (CATFP) for agriculture in Latin America and Caribbean … (LAC) countries, while also providing comparisons with several regions of the world. Climatic variability is introduced in … induces significant reductions in productivity (2.3% to 10.7%), over the 2013-2040 period. Estimated output losses due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339428
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In search of larger per capita incomes : how to prioritize across productivity determinants?
Izquierdo, Alejandro; Llopis, Jimena; Muratori, Umberto; … - 2016
This study is a first contribution to prioritization across productivity determinant capabilities that attempts to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457783