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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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Rise to the challenge or not give a damn: Differential performance in high vs. low stakes tests

Attali, Yigal; Neeman, Zvika; Schlosser, Analia - 2011

This paper studies how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing performance in the GRE examination in high and low stakes situations. The high stakes situation is the real GRE examination and the low stakes situation is a voluntary experimental section of the GRE that...

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Inequality during the early years: Child outcomes and readiness to learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States

Bradbury, Bruce; Corak, Miles; Waldfogel, Jane; … - 2011

This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child outcomes related to readiness to learn, focusing on...

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Talking about the pigou paradox: Socio-educational background and educational outcomes of AlmaLaurea

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2011

Italy has an immobile social structure. At the heart of this immobility is the educational system, with its high direct, but especially indirect cost, due to the extremely long time necessary to get a degree and to complete the subsequent school-to-work transition. Such cost prevents the...

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The returns to skill and racial difference in parenting: Evidence from the civil rights movement

Thompson, Owen - 2011

On average, the parental practices adopted by African American parents of young children are much less cognitively stimulating than those of their white counterparts. This paper argues that these differences stem from the low rates of return to human capital historically experienced by African...

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Earnings benefits of Tulsa's pre-K program for different income groups

Bartik, Timothy J.; Gormley, William; Adelstein, Shirley - 2011

This paper estimates future adult earnings effects associated with a universal pre-K program in Tulsa, Oklahoma. These informed projections help to compensate for the lack of long-term data on universal pre-K programs, while using metrics that relate test scores to valued social benefits....

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How much might human capital policies affect earnings inequalities and poverty?

Behrman, Jere R. - In: Estudios de Economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 9-41

Economic inequality and poverty have persisted in Latin America despite important changes in political and policy regimes. This paper explores the relationship between various human capital programs aimed to reduced poverty and how improvements of those in poverty in the left tail of the earning...

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Reaching High: Occupational Sorting and Higher Education Wage Inequality in the UK

Kleibrink, Jan; Michaelsen, Maren M. - 2012

We analyse wage differentials between Higher Education graduates in the UK, differentiating between polytechnic and university graduates. Polytechnic graduates earned on average lower wages than university graduates prior to the UK Further and Higher Education Act of 1992. The reform changed the...

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The role of family risk attitudes in education and intergenerational mobility: An empirical analysis

Huebener, Mathias - 2012

This paper analyses the role of family risk attitudes in intergenerational mobility in incomes and education. Based on 1984-2009 data of sons and fathers from the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey, there is evidence suggesting that sons with risk taking fathers have a significantly higher...

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