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Ritzen, Jo - 2012

research would be helpful. Universities can contribute to recreating hope and optimism through more innovation in the economy. …

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The Education-Innovation Gap

Biasi, Barbara; Ma, Song - 2022

This paper documents differences across higher-education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Comparing the … text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we construct the “education-innovation gap,” a syllabus’s relative … proximity to old and new knowledge. We show that courses differ greatly in the extent to which they cover frontier knowledge …

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Education, social mobility and religious movements: A theory of the Islamic revival in Egypt

Binzel, Christine; Carvalho, Jean-Paul - 2013

This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we...

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Just the facts, ma'am: Postsecondary education and labor market outcomes in the US

Holzer, Harry J.; Dunlop, Erin - 2013

In this paper, we provide a comprehensive and up-to-date snapshot of the most important postsecondary education and labor market outcomes in the U.S. using two nationally representative sources of data: The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and The National Educational...

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Job Mobility and Sorting: Theory and Evidence

Stijepic, Damir - 2015

I derive a measure of job mobility that reflects individuals ability to sort into the preferred jobs. Relying on the Survey of Income and Program Participation, I find that educational attainment tends to have a strong positive effect on internal (i.e., within firms) and external (i.e., between...

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Family Shocks and Academic Achievement

Hull, Marie C. - 2015

Disruptions in family life can take many forms, but all have the potential to impact student learning. With school administrative data matched to birth records, I estimate the effect of unexpected changes in the home environment, or family shocks, on achievement. Identification comes from...

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School Quality and the Development of Cognitive Skills between Age Four and Six

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Zölitz, Ulf - 2015

This paper studies the extent to which young children develop their cognitive ability in high and low quality schools. We use a representative panel data set containing cognitive test scores of 4-6 year olds in Dutch schools. School quality is measured by the school's average achievement test...

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Intercontinental evidence on socioeconomic status and early childhood cognitive skills: Is Latin America different?

Lopez Boo, Florencia - 2013

This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children from households with high and low socioeconomic status (SES) in two different phases of childhood (before and after early school years) in four developing countries: Peru,...

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The Academic Progress of Hispanic Immigrants

Hull, Marie C. - 2015

Past research has shown that Hispanic students make test score gains relative to whites as they age through school; however, this finding stands in contrast to the experience of blacks, who show little change in their relative position over the same time frame. Distinguishing Hispanic students...

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Educação e o rendimento dos ricos no Brasil

Medeiros, Marcelo; Galvão, Juliana Castro - 2015

We examine the extent to which education is a main determinant of affluence in Brazil. We focus on workers in the top 1% of the labor earnings distribution. We use university courses data from the Sample Questionnaire of the 2010 Census. Our main conclusion is that while education may be...

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