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Does the Market Value Value-Added? Evidence from Housing Prices after a Public Release of School and Teacher Value-Added
Imberman, Scott Andrew; Lovenheim, Michael - CESifo - 2013
Value-added data are an increasingly common evaluation tool for schools and teachers. Many school districts have … analysis is the first in the school valuation literature to examine property value responses to a value-added information shock …, which is of interest as this measure is less correlated with demographics than typical school quality measures. Unique to …
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Universitäten als regionale Förderer der Wirtschaft?
Audretsch, David B.; Lehmann Erik E. - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 11 (2004) 03, pp. 18-23
In diesem Beitrag werden mögliche Einflussfaktoren auf die Standortentscheidung von Unternehmen in der Umgebung von Universitäten aufgezeigt. Dabei wird auf Studien zurückgegriffen, die anhand der am Neuen Markt gelisteten Unternehmen durchgeführt wurden. Als wesentliche Einflussfaktoren auf...
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A Model of Educational Investment and Social Status
Gallice, Andrea; Grillo, Edoardo - Collegio Carlo Alberto, Università degli Studi di Torino - 2015
We consider a model in which educational investments entail productivity gains, signaling power, and social returns. The latter depend on the relative position the agent occupies in one of three di¤erent dimensions: (i) his innate characteristics, (ii) his level of schooling, and (iii) his...
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The Dispersion of Intra-Household Human Capital Across Children: A Measurement Strategy and Evidence
Souza, Andre Portela; Horowitz, Andrew W. - Econometric Society - 2004
Human capital accumulation has long been recognized as critical to economic growth and development. In recent years focus on the intra-household distribution of human capital has intensified both theoretically and empirically. However, connecting the theoretical and empirical literature has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005328900
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The effect of household hospitalizations on the educational attainment of youth
Johnson, Eric; Reynolds, C. Lockwood - In: Economics of Education Review 37 (2013) C, pp. 165-182
hospitalizations lead to reductions in the likelihood of completing high school, attending college and completing a bachelor's degree …
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Adjusting Household Structure: School Enrollment Impacts of Child Fostering in Burkina Faso
Akresh, Richard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
human capital investment. This paper measures the impact of child fostering on school enrollment and uses household and …
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Ranking the Schools: How Quality Information Affects School Choice in the Netherlands
Koning, Pierre; van der Wiel, Karen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper analyzes whether information on high school quality published by a national newspaper affects school choice … in the Netherlands. For this purpose, we use both school level and individual student level data. First, we study the … causal effect of quality scores on the influx of new high school students using a longitudinal school dataset. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530646
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Rotten Parents and Child Labor
Bommier, Antoine; Dubois, Pierre - Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquee, INRA - 2002
We show that taking into account the consequences of child labor on both childhood welfare and human capital investment, instead of focusing exclusively on the human capital dimension, brings new insights on the economic analysis of child labor. In particular, there are new sources of potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005027406
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The Dispersion of Intra-Household Human Capital Across Children: A Measurement Strategy and Evidence
Horowitz, Andrew W.; Souza, Andre Portela - Vanderbilt University Department of Economics - 2004
Human capital accumulation has long been recognized as critical to economic growth and development. In recent years focus on the intra-household distribution of human capital has intensified both theoretically and empirically. However, connecting the theoretical and empirical literature has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005585328
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Child Work and Schooling in Bangladesh: The Role of Birth Order
Khanam, Rasheda; Rahman, Mohammad Mafizur - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
activity or at least combining school with work rather than schooling only. The results confirm that later-born children are … more likely to be in school than their earlier-born counterparts. …
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