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vocational training schools and evening schools; quite a few students switch between tracks; and drop-outs and evening school … students do not have a second chance on the regular track. Standardized test scores in 8th grade are strong predictors of …
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Technology and Economics proved to have significant positive effect on after-graduation earnings. -- returns to college quality … field of study Specialization in teaching, by contrast, decreases not only earnings but employment probability as well. As … regards the effect of the college of graduation, some colleges have significant positive or negative effect on either …
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, gender) on the achievement of eighth grade students using matched student-teacher data from the 1999, 2003 and 2007 TIMSS …
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vocational training schools and evening schools; quite a few students switch between tracks; and drop-outs and evening school … students do not have a second chance on the regular track. Standardized test scores in 8th grade are strong predictors of …
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By making use of Duncan & Hoffman's empirical model, the economic returns to overeducation and undereducation are estimated using comparable microdata from the middle of the 2000s for 25 European countries. The estimates confirm some of the main results found in the literature. The wage premium...
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This paper estimates the effect of school starting age on academic performance using the 2006 "National Assessment of Basic Competencies" (NABC), focusing on disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged children. The instrumental variable estimates of the school starting age imply that those who start...
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