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The pathways to college
Agarwal, Lisha; Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2019
We estimate the effect of the high school curriculum (or track) on the returns to college using data from the Italian PLUS (Participation Labour and Unemployment Survey) survey. We find that college graduates with vocational high school are less likely to be employed than graduates with academic...
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Math scores in high stakes grades
Brunello, Giorgio; Kiss, David - 2019
We investigate whether tests taken during a high stakes grade by German primary and secondary students produce higher …
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Math scores in high stakes grades
Brunello, Giorgio; Kiss, David - In: Economics of education review 87 (2022), pp. 1-6
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External monitors and score manipulation in italian schools : symptomatic treatment or cure?
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; De Benedetto, Marco … - 2019
We use the repeated random assignment of external examiners to school institutes in Italy to investigate whether the effect of external monitoring on test score manipulation persists over time. We find that this effect is still present in the tests taken one year after exposure to the examiners,...
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Testing the internal validity of compulsory school reforms as instrument for years of schooling
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Weber, Guglielmo; … - 2013
In the large empirical literature that investigates the causal effects of education on outcomes such as health, wages and crime, it is customary to measure education with years of schooling, and to identify these effects using the exogenous variation provided by school reforms increasing...
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Testing the internal validity of compulsory school reforms as instrument for years of schooling
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Weber, Guglielmo; … - 2013
In the large empirical literature that investigates the causal effects of education on outcomes such as health, wages and crime, it is customary to measure education with years of schooling, and to identify these effects using the exogenous variation provided by school reforms increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786492
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The wage expectations of European college students
Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2001
the results of the first systematic study of the wage expectations of European college students. Our data are based on the … replies to the same questionnaire by more than 6000 college students all over Europe. We study the determinants of wage …-specific micro-data. In line with U.S. studies we find that students overestimate returns to education. …
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The labor market effects of academic and vocational education over the life cycle : evidence based on a British cohort
Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - In: Journal of human capital : JHC 11 (2017) 1, pp. 106-166
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The labour market effects of academic and vocational education over the life cycle : evidence from two British cohorts
Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2015
Several commentators have argued that vocational education provides a smoother school to work transition than academic education. In the long - run, however, the skills it provides depreciate faster and individuals with this type of education are less capable of adapting to technical change....
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Residential peer effects in higher education: does the field of study matter?
Brunello, Giorgio (contributor); De Paola, Maria (contributor) - 2008
exploiting the random assignment of first year students to college accommodation, we find evidence that peer effects are positive … and statistically significant for students enrolled in the fields of Engineering, Maths and Natural Sciences - which are … expected to generate higher earnings after college - and not different from zero for students enrolled in the Humanities …
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