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Education and mobility
Machin, Stephen; Pelkonen, Panu; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2008
We show that the length of compulsory education has a causal impact on regional labour mobility. The analysis is based … be due to differences in levels of education in the respective regions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269328
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The Making of Social Democracy: The Economic and Electoral Consequences of Norway's 1936 Folk School Reform
Acemoglu, Daron; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Salvanes, Kjell G.; … - 2021
by the reform significantly increased their education and experienced higher labor income. Our main result is that the …. These results are not driven by the direct impact of education and are not explained by higher turnout, or greater attention …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658196
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The making of social democracy: the economic and electoral consequences of Norway’s 1936 folk school reform
Acemoglu, Daron; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Salvanes, Kjell G.; … - 2021
by the reform significantly increased their education and experienced higher labor income. Our main result is that the …. These results are not driven by the direct impact of education and are not explained by higher turnout, or greater attention …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012602970
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Education and Mobility
Machin, Stephen; Pelkonen, Panu; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We show that the length of compulsory education has a causal impact on regional labour mobility. The analysis is based … be due to differences in levels of education in the respective regions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822153
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Pupil achievement, school resources and family background
Hægeland, Torbjørn; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2004
Whether increasing resource use in schools has a positive effect on pupil performance has occupied governments, parents and researchers for decades. A main challenge when trying to answer this question is to separate the effects of school resources from the effects of pupils' family background,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968167
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Pennies from heaven. Using exogenous tax variation to identify effects of school resources on pupil achievement
Hægeland, Torbjørn; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2007
Despite important policy implications associated with the allocation of education resources, evidence on the … abilities, which leaves estimates of school input effects likely to be biased. Using variation in education expenditures induced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968278
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A Second Chance? Labor Market Returns to Adult Education Using School Reforms
Bennett, Patrick; Blundell, Richard; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2020
fertility. As male education remains unchanged by the reforms, later life education reduces the pre-existing gender earnings gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270270
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A second chance? Labor market returns to adult education using school reforms
Bennett, Patrick; Blundell, Richard W.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2020
fertility. As male education remains unchanged by the reforms, later life education reduces the pre-existing gender earnings gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012625366
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A Second Chance? The Labor Market Outcomes of Reforming Access to Adult Education
Bennett, Patrick; Blundell, Richard; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2021
policy reform which greatly enabled access to high school education for adults. Our focus is on women and the results show a … large and significant increase in education investments with a strong rise in the rate of college completion, leading to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658012
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Pennies from Heaven? Using Exogeneous Tax Variation to Identify Effects of School Resources on Pupil Achievements
Haegeland, Torbjørn; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Despite important policy implications associated with the allocation of education resources, evidence on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859580