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Education spillovers within the workplace
Bentsen, Kristian Hedeager; Munch, Jakob Roland; … - In: Economics letters 175 (2019), pp. 57-59
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Education spillovers within the workplace
Hedeager Bentsen, Kristian; Munch, Jakob Roland; … - 2018
Education policies depend in part on the presence of externalities, but very little evidence exists to confirm the … existence of such externalities. In this paper we investigate if there are spillover effects from education within peer groups … effect differs across length and type of education, as well as across occupations and peer group- and workplace size. …
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Chapter 15 Drinking from the Fountain of Knowledge: Student Incentive to Study and Learn – Externalities, Information Problems and Peer Pressure
Bishop, John - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 2, (pp. 909-944). 2006
Students face four decision margins: (a) How many years to spend in school, (b) What to study, (c) How much effort to devote to learning per year and (d) Whether to disrupt or assist the learning of classmates. The thousands of studies that have applied human capital theory to the first two...
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Do low levels of blood lead reduce children's future test scores?
Aizer, Anna; Currie, Janet M.; Simon, Peter; Vivier, Patrick - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539827
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Do Low Levels of Blood Lead Reduce Children's Future Test Scores?
Aizer, Anna - 2016
We construct a unique individual-level longitudinal dataset linking preschool blood lead levels with third grade test scores for eight birth cohorts of Rhode Island children born between 1997 and 2005. Using these data, we show that reductions of lead from even historically low levels have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984134
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Do low levels of blood lead reduce children's future test scores?
Aizer, Anna; Currie, Janet M.; Simon, Peter; Vivier, Patrick - In: American economic journal : a journal of the American … 10 (2018) 1, pp. 307-341
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011797084
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Do Low Levels of Blood Lead Reduce Children's Future Test Scores?
Aizer, Anna - 2016
We construct a unique individual-level longitudinal dataset linking preschool blood lead levels with third grade test scores for eight birth cohorts of Rhode Island children born between 1997 and 2005. Using these data, we show that reductions of lead from even historically low levels have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456121
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Peer Effects and Human Capital Accumulation : The Externalities of Add
Aizer, Anna - 2010
Recent work shows that peers affect student achievement, but the mechanisms are not well understood. I show that peer behavior is an important mechanism, perhaps more so than ability, by exploiting exogenous timing in diagnosis/treatment of ADD among peers that improves peer behavior while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758350
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Peer Effects and Human Capital Accumulation : the Externalities of ADD
Aizer, Anna - 2008
Recent work shows that peers affect student achievement, but the mechanisms are not well understood. I show that peer behavior is an important mechanism, perhaps more so than ability, by exploiting exogenous timing in diagnosis/treatment of ADD among peers that improves peer behavior while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464293
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The returns to schooling unveiled
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Portugal, Pedro; … - 2018
We bring together the strands of literature on the returns to education, its spillovers, and the role of the employer … shaping the wage distribution. The aim is to analyze the labor market returns to education taking into account who the worker … increase of 2.1 log points. Next, we show that education grants access to better-paying firms and job titles: one fourth of the …
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