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Analyzing Zero Returns to Education in Germany – Heterogeneous Eff ects and Skill Formation
Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Schmitz, Hendrik - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2013
compulsory schooling on wages in Germany. We go beyond these studies and test a potential reason for it, namely that basic skills … have a causal effect on cognitive skills in Germany. This is consistent with the explanation for zero effects of schooling … are learned earlier in Germany and additional years of schooling are not effective anymore. This is done by also …
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Analyzing Zero Returns to Education in Germany: Heterogeneous Effects and Skill Formation
Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Schmitz, Hendrik - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
compulsory schooling on wages in Germany. We go beyond these studies and test a potential reason for it, namely that basic skills … have a causal effect on cognitive skills in Germany. This is consistent with the explanation for zero effects of schooling … are learned earlier in Germany and additional years of schooling are not effective anymore. This is done by also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128958
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Analyzing Zero Returns to Education in Germany: Heterogeneous Effects and Skill Formation
Kamhöfer, Daniel; Schmitz, Hendrik - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
variable estimation is necessary since on the one hand, schooling is highly affected by cognitive skills (reverse causality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010986058
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Reading to Young Children: A Head-Start in Life?
Kalb, Guyonne; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
parental reading to children at age 4 to 5 has positive and significant effects on reading skills and cognitive skills of these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884138
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Reading to Young Children: A Head-Start in Life?
Kalb, Guyonne; Ours, Jan C. van - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social … - 2013
parental reading to children at age 4 to 5 has positive and significant effects on reading skills and cognitive skills of these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010902160
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Charters Without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston
Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila; Angrist, Joshua; Hull, Peter D.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Lottery estimates suggest oversubscribed urban charter schools boost student achievement markedly. But these estimates needn't capture treatment effects for students who haven't applied to charter schools or for students attending charters for which demand is weak. This paper reports estimates...
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In a Small Moment: Class Size and Moral Hazard in the Mezzogiorno
Angrist, Joshua; Battistin, Erich; Vuri, Daniela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
An instrumental variables (IV) identification strategy that exploits statutory class size caps shows significant achievement gains in smaller classes in Italian primary schools. Gains from small classes are driven mainly by schools in Southern Italy, suggesting a substantial return to class size...
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The surprising effect of larger class sizes: Evidence using two identification strategies
Denny, Kevin; Oppedisano, Veruska - In: Labour Economics 23 (2013) C, pp. 57-65
This paper estimates the marginal effect of class size on educational attainment of high school students. We control for the potential endogeneity of class size in two ways using a conventional instrumental variable approach, based on changes in cohort size, and an alternative method where...
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Reading to young children: A head-start in life?
Kalb, Guyonne; Ours, Jan C. van - In: Economics of Education Review 40 (2014) C, pp. 1-24
parental reading to children at age 4–5 has positive and significant effects on reading skills and cognitive skills (including … numeracy skills) of these children at least up to age 10 or 11. The effects on skills more closely related to reading and … language are larger than those on skills such as numeracy skills. However, all findings in relation to reading and other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010776799
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Wanna Get Away? RD Identification Away from the Cutoff
Angrist, Joshua; Rokkanen, Miikka - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
In the canonical regression discontinuity (RD) design for applicants who face an award or admissions cutoff, causal effects are nonparametrically identified for those near the cutoff. The impact of treatment on inframarginal applicants is also of interest, but identification of such effects...
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