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Fuentes, Andrés - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009

Impressive progress has been made in raising participation in early childhood education as well as tertiary educational attainment over the past 30 years. However, the inflow of poorly educated youth into the labour market is unusually heavy for a high-income country, largely on account of high...

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Public University in Argentina: Subsidizing the Rich?

Rozada, Martín González; Menéndez, Alicia - Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson … - 2002

families. Almost 90 percent of the students in tuition-free public universities have higher than median per capita family … income and almost 50 percent attended tuition-financed private high schools. We compare these students with those who attend … non tuition-free private colleges. Although students in private universities seem to have higher per capita family income …

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Public University in Argentina: Subsidizing the Rich?

Rozada, Martín González; Menéndez, Alicia - Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson … - 2002

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The impact of education investment on Sri Lankan economic growth

Ganegodage, K. Renuka; Rambaldi, Alicia N. - In: Economics of Education Review 30 (2011) 6, pp. 1491-1502

We evaluate the contribution of investment on education to Sri Lanka’s economic growth during the period 1959–2008. Physical capital, economic policy changes and the ethnic war are also evaluated due to their substantial importance. This study uses a framework encompassing both the...

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Measuring the Returns to the GED: Using an Exogenous Change in GED Passing Standards as a Natural Experiment

Lofstrom, Magnus; Tyler, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

In this paper, we exploit an exogenous change in the passing standard required to obtain a General Educational Development (GED) credential to identify the impact of the GED on the quarterly earnings of male dropouts, utilizing the Texas Schools Micro Data Panel (TSMP). These unique data contain...

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Modeling the Signaling Value of the GED with an Application to an Exogenous Passing Standard Increase in Texas

Lofstrom, Magnus; Tyler, John H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In this paper we develop a simple model of the signaling value of the GED credential. The model illustrates necessary assumptions for a difference-in-difference estimator, which uses a change in the GED passing standard, to yield unbiased estimates of the signaling value of the GED for marginal...

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Policies to Create and Destroy Human Capital in Europe

Heckman, James J.; Jacobs, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Trends in skill bias and greater turbulence in modern labor markets put wages and employment prospects of unskilled workers under pressure. Weak incentives to utilize and maintain skills over the life-cycle become manifest with the ageing of the population. Reinvention of human capital policies...

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The Educated Russian's Curse: Returns to Education in the Russian Federation.

Benitez-Silva, Hugo; Sheidvasser, Sofia - Economics Department, State University of New … - 2000

This paper uses the only representative sample of the Russian Federation, the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, to estimate the returns to education in this ex-communist country. This is one of the first studies to tackle this classic issue in labor economics with the realistic expectation...

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Using Wages to Infer School Quality

Speakman, Robert; Welch, Finis - In: Handbook of the Economics of Education

This chapter examines the literature that attempts to measure the relationship between labor earnings and the average quality of a state's elementary and secondary schools where school quality is approximated by statewide average characteristics like the teacher-pupil ratio. We present evidence...

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Individual heterogeneity in the returns to schooling: instrumental variables quantile regression using twins data

Arias, Omar; Sosa-Escudero, Walter; Hallock, Kevin F. - In: Empirical Economics 26 (2001) 1, pp. 7-40

Considerable effort has been exercised in estimating mean returns to education while carefully considering biases arising from unmeasured ability and measurement error. Recent work has investigated whether there are variations from the "mean" return to education across the population with mixed...

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