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children who start school at the age of six. This benefit is substantially larger for disadvantaged children than their non …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 …
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494684
children who start school at the age of six. This benefit is substantially larger for disadvantaged children than their non …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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494701
The paper investigates the effect of teacher characteristics (experience, level of education attainment and credentials, gender) on the achievement of eighth grade students using matched student-teacher data from the 1999, 2003 and 2007 TIMSS surveys. The analysis covers European countries, thus...
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The paper uses data from a large representative survey of Hungarian higher education graduates (DPR 2010) to study the early labour market effects of field of study and college quality. Propensity score matching average treatment effect method is used to reveal the effect of the field of study,...
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The paper presents a detailed description of the ISMIK model which was developed as a part of "Priority project TÁMOP - 2.3.2-09/1 Establishing labour market forecasts and foreseeing structural changes". The ISMIK model is a dynamic microsimulation model to project individuals' educational...
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educational accountability. School report cards have been published for the third time in 2011 for each school with a 6th, 8th or … well as statistics about the school and about the parents. This paper summarizes the most important theoretical and … empirical literature about school accountability, using American and English studies. Although this paper is a pure summary with …
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The paper examines the labour-market position of persons with the higher-education diploma in Hungary. First, using simple labour-market indicators and international-comparison data, we find that persons with the higher-education diploma in Hungary are in a relatively good position in terms of...
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