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Literacy traps : society-wide education and individual skill premia
Atal, Vidya; Basu, Kaushik; Gray, John; Lee, Travis - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003839303
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Literacy traps : society-wide education and individual skill premia
Atal, Vidya; Basu, Kaushik; Gray, John; Lee, Travis - 2009
mechanism for solving the coordination failure in people's choice of educational strategy. -- education ; literacy ; O …Using a model of O-ring production function, the paper demonstrates how certain communities can get caught in a low-literacy …-ring ; skill formation ; traps …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003862834
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Literacy traps : society-wide education and individual skill premia
Atal, Vidya; Basu, Kaushik; Gray, John; Lee, Travis - 2009
mechanism for solving the coordination failure in people’s choice of educational strategy. -- Education ; literacy ; O …Using a model of O-ring production function, the paper demonstrates how certain communities can get caught in a low-literacy …-ring ; skill formation ; traps …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003818089
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Literacy traps : society-wide education and individual skill premia
Atal, Vidya; Basu, Kaushik; Gray, John; Lee, Travis - In: International journal of economic theory 6 (2010) 1, pp. 137-148
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003947385
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Literacy Traps : Society-Wide Education and Individual Skill Premia
Atal, Vidya - 2009
Using a model of O-ring production function, the paper demonstrates how certain communities can get caught in a low-literacy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764476
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Chapter 12 Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation
Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J.; Lochner, Lance; … - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 1, (pp. 697-812). 2006
This paper presents economic models of child development that capture the essence of recent findings from the empirical literature on skill formation. The goal of this essay is to provide a theoretical framework for interpreting the evidence from a vast empirical literature, for guiding the next...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023731
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Noncognitive skills in economics : models, measurement, and empirical evidence
Thiel, Hendrik; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2009
There is an increasing economic literature considering personality. This paper provides an overview on the role of these skills regarding three main aspects of economic analysis: measurement, theoretical modeling, and empirical estimates. Based on the relevant literature from different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003903035
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Noncognitive skills in economics : models, measurement, and empirical evidence
Thiel, Hendrik; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2011 - Revised version: November 15, 2011
There is an increasing economic literature considering personality traits as a source of individual differences in labor market productivity and other outcomes. This paper provides an overview on the role of these skills regarding three main aspects: measurement, development over the life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009424169
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Bilingual schooling and earnings : evidence from a language-in-education reform
Cappellari, Lorenzo; Di Paolo, Antonio - 2015
We exploit the 1983 language-in-education reform that introduced Catalan alongside Spanish as medium of instruction in … Catalan schools to estimate the labour market value of bilingual education. Identification is achieved in a difference … returns to bilingual education and no effects on employment, hours of work or occupation. Results are robust to education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348288
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The returns to elite college education : a quasi-experimental analysis
Anelli, Massimo - 2016
threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011531928