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Strengthening teachers in disadvantaged schools: Evidence from an intervention in Sweden's poorest city districts

Hall, Caroline King Barnard; Lundin, Martin; Sibbmark, … - 2018

Children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods tend to perform significantly worse in school compared to children growing up under more favorable circumstances. We examine the impact of a three-year program ("Coaching for Teaching") targeted at ten poorly performing lower secondary schools...

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The economic consequences of setting foot in a college in Colombia

Herrera Prada, Luis Omar - 2020

Using administrative data, I track the path of all the secondary school graduates in Colombia from 2002 to 2012 that enter higher education and/or the formal labor market (5.4 million graduates). I compare graduates within the same secondary school and cohorts to estimate the premium of higher...

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High-Speed Broadband and Academic Achievement in Teenagers: Evidence from Sweden

Grenestam, Erik; Nordin, Martin - 2018

This study examines the effects of super-fast internet connections on the academic achievement of students in upper secondary school. We link detailed register data on around 250,000 students to local levels of access to optic fiber broadband and estimate the effect of broadband on student GPA....

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Home computer ownership and educational outcomes of adolescents in Greece

Djinovic, Vladana; Giannakopoulos, Nicholas - 2022

In this paper we investigate whether human capital accumulation, during adolescence, depends on home investments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) equipment. Using micro-level data, for children aged 17-18 years old, drawn from the Greek part of the European Union Statistics on...

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Culture, feedback, and gender in education

Kinne, Lavinia - 2023

This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education. Chapters 2 and 3 show that patience and risk-taking as intertemporal preferences are closely related to differences in student achievement across and within countries. Chapter...

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Long-term effects of environmental policies on educational performance: Evidence from China

Khelifa, Siwar; He, Jie - 2023

This paper examines the overall long-term effects of the Two Control Zones policy, implemented by the Chinese government to reduce air pollution, on children's human capital development. Estimates show that exposure to this policy, during the year of birth, is associated, 15 years later, with an...

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Sweet child o'mine: The impact of mining on educational and labor market outputs in Colombia

Herrera Prada, Luis Omar - 2024

This paper examines the effects of mineral extraction on human capital formation in Colombia, a country rich in natural resources but struggling with low college attendance, high youth unemployment, and high informality in the labor market. Leveraging the allocation of natural resources as a...

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Skill-biased technological change, training, and the college wage premium: A quantitative analysis

Palmer, Thomas - 2024

This paper establishes that the rise in employer-provided training due to technological change has dampened the college wage premium. Using unique survey micro-data, I show that hightechnology firms provide more training overall, but the gap in training participation between high- and low-skill...

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Sources of Knowledge Used by Entrepreneurial Firms in the European High-Tech Sector

Amoroso, Sara; Audretsch, David B.; Link, Albert N. - 2017

/her reliance on alternative sources of knowledge for exploring new business opportunities. The extant literature that is at the … crossroads between sources of knowledge and the experiential and intellectual base of an entrepreneur (i.e., dimensions of his …/her human capital) suggests that it is through experience and through education that an entrepreneur obtains knowledge. Using …

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Thought for Food: Understanding Educational Disparities in Food Consumption

Koç, Hale; van Kippersluis, Hans - 2015

discriminate between the theoretical parameters. Differences in health knowledge appear to be responsible for the greatest part of …

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