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Enrolments in higher education in West Germany: the impact of social background, labour market returns and educational funding
Lauer, Charlotte - 2000
higher education. The expected return to education in terms of wages also affects educational decisions significantly. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297724
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Class size and class heterogeneity
De Giorgi, Giacomo; Pellizzari, Michele; Woolston, … - 2009
We study how class size and composition affect the academic and labor market performances of college students, two … crucial policy questions given the secular increase in college enrollment. We rely on the random assignment of students to … deviation deterioration of the average grade. Further, the effect is heterogenous as female and higher income students seem …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271281
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Mind the Gap? Estimating the Effects of Postponing Higher Education
Holmlund, Bertil; Liu, Qian; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2006
This paper estimates the effects on earnings of "gap years" between high school and university enrollment. The effect is estimated by means of standard earnings functions augmented to account for gap years and a rich set of control variables using administrative Swedish data. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321632
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Mind the gap?: Estimating the effects of postponing higher education
Holmlund, Bertil; Liu, Qian; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2006
This paper estimates the effects on earnings of "gap years" between high school and university enrollment. The effect is estimated by means of standard earnings functions augmented to account for gap years and a rich set of control variables using administrative Swedish data. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263972
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Mind the gap? Estimating the effects of postponing higher education
Holmlund, Bertil; Liu, Qian; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2006
This paper estimates the effects on earnings of “gap years” between high school and university enrollment. The effect is estimated by means of standard earnings functions augmented to account for gap years and a rich set of control variables using administrative Swedish data. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317956
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The supply of new engineers in Germany
Neugart, Michael - 2000
have backward looking expectations, in the other rational expectations on future wages. Only the model with backward … welfare improvements through the provision of information on future wages are considerable. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010303967
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The Return to a University Education in Great Britain
O'Leary, Nigel C.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2004
charging students for the costs of their education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261948
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Investment in education: Some lessons from the international evidence for the Baltic states
Gundlach, Erich - 1999
The international empirical evidence on the economics of education reveals one central insight and two puzzles, which are all relevant for the case of the Baltic States. The central insight is that social rates of return to education tend to be higher than the social opportunity costs of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295007
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The Demand for Higher Education in Germany
Merz, Monika; Schimmelpfennig, Axel - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 68 (1999) 2, pp. 204-208
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475525
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On the Timing of Education
Sjögren, Anna; Saez-Marti, Maria - 2004
We propose a simple investment model which shows that, in the presence of fluctuations in and uncertainty about the opportunity cost of time, marginal individuals may choose to delay their education if the opportunity cost of time is temporarily high. Importantly, it is when the completion of...
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