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Do students benefit from compulsory schooling? Researchers using changes in compulsory schooling laws as instruments … education. That is, the Local Average Treatment Effect (LATE) is larger than the average treatment effect (ATE). However …
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Research suggests that teenage childbearing adversely affects both the outcomes of the mothers as well as those of their children. We know that low-educated women are more likely to have a teenage birth, but does this imply that policies that increase educational attainment reduce early...
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using scores from IQ tests taken outside of school, at the time of military enrolment, and measured when students are around … market experience at a given age for a given level of education; however, this becomes less important as individuals age. …
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Given the wide use of childcare subsidies across countries, it is surprising how little we know about the effect of these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are able to isolate the effects of childcare subsidies on...
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Given the wide use of childcare subsidies across countries, it is surprising how little we know about the effect of these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are able to isolate the effects of childcare subsidies on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286894
While education levels of women have increased dramatically relative to men, women are still greatly underrepresented … for all secondary school students who apply for college in Ireland and detailed information on school subjects and grades … STEM-ready students. We find that gender gaps are smaller among high-achieving students and for students who go to school …
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Governments invest a lot of money in education, so it is important to understand the benefits of this spending. One … essential aspect is that education can potentially make people better parents and thus improve the educational and employment … reduce inequality in current and future generations. In addition to purely formal education, much less expensive …
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There are two well-established gender gaps in education. First, females tend to have higher educational attainment and …
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school or college on subsequent outcomes of students. We review this recent literature, describing the difficult … for ability or achievement and across a range of countries, ages, and types of educational institutions, students that are … into other educational phenomena such as the extent to which students benefit from high ability peers and the presence of a …
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school or college on subsequent outcomes of students. We review this recent literature, describing the difficult … for ability or achievement and across a range of countries, ages, and types of educational institutions, students that are … into other educational phenomena such as the extent to which students benefit from high ability peers and the presence of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013427619