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Leadership at school: Does the gender of siblings matter?
Brunello, Giorgio; De Paola, Maria - 2012
Having leader positions at school, as well as participating in sports and clubs helps promoting valuable non cognitive skills, including leadership, self-discipline, motivation, competitiveness and self-esteem. We use survey data from the US and Japan to investigate whether these behaviors in...
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The effects of personality traits on adult labor market outcomes: Evidence from siblings
Fletcher, Jason M. - 2012
important role in producing both personality and other non-cognitive skills and labor market outcomes is family background …, including genetic endowments. This paper is the first to use sibling differences to estimate the effects of personality on … ability, schooling, occupation, and other factors. Overall, the findings suggest that personality measures are important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282340
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Beyond the classroom: Using title IX to measure the return to high school sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates - to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates - in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266109
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Basic skills and the earnings of dropouts
Tyler, John H. - 2002
This paper tests the extent to which the accumulation of basic cognitive skills, as measured by a post-schooling math test, matter for young dropouts entering today’s labor market. Based on a sample of dropouts who were age 16-18 when administered a math test in the late 1990s, estimates...
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The distributional effects of direct college costs
Gemus, Jonathan - 2010
This paper examines the distributional impacts of direct college costs - that is, whether the response of educational decisions to college costs varies by student characteristics. The primary obstacle in estimating these effects is the endogeneity of schooling costs. To overcome this issue, I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321404
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Ageing and literacy skills: Evidence from Canada, Norway and the United States
Green, David A.; Riddell, W. Craig - 2012
We study the relationship between age and literacy skills in Canada, Norway and the U.S. &- countries that represent a wide range of literacy outcomes - using data from the 1994 and 2003 International Adult Literacy Surveys. In cross-sectional data there is a weak negative partial relationship...
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Differences in employment outcomes for college town stayers and leavers
Winters, John V. - 2012
Areas surrounding colleges and universities are often able to build their local stock of human capital by retaining recent graduates in the area after they finish their education. This paper classifies 41 U.S. metropolitan areas as college towns and investigates differences in employment...
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How do principals assign students to teachers? Finding evidence in administrative data and the implications for value-added
Dieterle, Steven G.; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - 2012
The federal government's Race to the Top competition has promoted the adoption of test-based performance measures as a component of teacher evaluations throughout many states, but the validity of these measures has been controversial among researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A...
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Long term impacts of compensatory preschool on health and behavior: Evidence from head start
Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2012
This paper provides new estimates of the medium and long-term impacts of Head Start on the health and behavioral problems of its participants. We identify these impacts using discontinuities in the probability of participation induced by program eligibility rules. Our strategy allows us to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321475
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Long term impacts of compensatory preschool on health and behavior: Evidence from head start
Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2012
This paper provides new estimates of the medium and long-term impacts of Head Start on the health and behavioral problems of its participants. We identify these impacts using discontinuities in the probability of participation induced by program eligibility rules. Our strategy allows us to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282137