data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education – but not income or urbanization – is …

data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education – but not income or urbanization – is …

We study the effect of post-compulsory education on crime by exploiting a regression discontinuity design generated by …

We study the effect of post-compulsory education on crime by exploiting a regression discontinuity design generated by …

education and gender differences in educational attainment and income. We argue that in a system that streams students into … the tracking age increased gender differences in the probability of choosing the academic secondary education and in the … probability of continuing into academic tertiary education. The reform had particularily negative effects on boys from non …

market. At the same time, education is a time-consuming process, and enrolment and dropout decisions depend on expected … in finding a job. Standard models of job search and education assume that skills can be upgraded instantaneously (and … mostly in the form of on-the-job training) at a fixed cost. This paper models education as a time-consuming process, a …

Many authors have recently suggested that the heterogeneity in the quality of early education may be one of the key …-1977 significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary education. The reform shifted the tracking … age in secondary education from age 10 to 16 and imposed a uniform academic curriculum on entire cohorts until the end of …