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Forced to be rich? : returns to compulsory schooling in Britain
Devereux, Paul J. (contributor); Hart, Robert A. (contributor) - 2008
Do students benefit from compulsory schooling? Researchers using changes in compulsory schooling laws as instruments have typically estimated very high returns to additional schooling that are greater than the corresponding OLS estimates and concluded that the group of individuals who are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652686
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Forced to be rich? : returns to compulsory schooling in Britain
Devereux, Paul J.; Hart, Robert A. - 2009
Do students benefit from compulsory schooling? In an important article, Oreopoulos (2006) studied the 1947 British compulsory schooling law change and found large returns to schooling of about 15% using the General Household Survey (GHS). Reanalysing this dataset, we find much smaller returns of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003899978
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Forced to be rich? : returns to compulsory schooling in Britain
Devereux, Paul J.; Hart, Robert A. - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 120 (2010) 549, pp. 1345-1364
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Forced to be rich? : returns to compulory schooling in Britain
Devereux, Paul J.; Hart, Robert A. - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003669604
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Forced to be rich? : returns to compulsory schooling in Britain
Devereux, Paul J.; Hart, Robert A. - 2009
Do students benefit from compulsory schooling? In an important article, Oreopoulos (2006) studied the 1947 British compulsory schooling law change and found large returns to schooling of about 15% using the General Household Survey (GHS). Reanalysing this dataset, we find much smaller returns of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009724988
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Forced to be rich? : returns to compulsory schooling in Britain
Devereux, Paul J.; Hart, Robert A. - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212157
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Forced to Be Rich? Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Britain
Devereux, Paul J.; Hart, Robert A. - 2021
Do students benefit from compulsory schooling? Researchers using changes in compulsory schooling laws as instruments have typically estimated very high returns to additional schooling that are greater than the corresponding OLS estimates and concluded that the group of individuals who are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325158
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Date of birth and selective schooling
Hart, Robert A.; Moro, Mirko - 2017
as a natural experiment. We compare the probabilities of gaining selective school entry - which in our study period meant … attending a grammar school - before and after the Act using a difference-in-difference approach. Before 1944, grammar school … children were required to take a competitive 11+ exam and about one-third gained a grammar school place. Pre-1944 we find the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011724448
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Forced to be rich? returns to compulsory schooling in Britain
Devereux, Paul J.; Hart, Robert A. - 2008
Do students benefit from compulsory schooling? Researchers using changes in compulsory schooling laws as instruments have typically estimated very high returns to additional schooling that are greater than the corresponding OLS estimates and concluded that the group of individuals who are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268617
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Tenure-based Wage Setting
Hart, Robert A.; Ritchie, Felix - 1999
We provide empirical support for the contention that within-job wage growth relates purely to job-specific performance and that returns to general experience are assessed at the point of job change. Using the British New Earnings Survey panel data we identify job changes that take place both...
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