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Chapter 2. The Production of Human Capital in Developed Countries : Evidence From 196 Randomized Field Experiments
Fryer, R.G. - 2017
Randomized field experiments designed to better understand the production of human capital have increased exponentially over the past several decades. This chapter summarizes what we have learned about various partial derivatives of the human capital production function, what important partial...
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Education economics from a historical perspective
Schüler, Ruth M. - 2018
The organization of the Prussian school system still affects the German education system of today. Against the … background of end-of-nineteenth-Prussia this thesis analyzes how education funding emerges in a federal system and how it affects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011793439
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The Great Migration and educational opportunity
Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. - 2022
estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants. On average, Black children gained 0 …
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The Great Migration and educational opportunity
Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. - 2023
estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants. On average, Black children gained 0 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014229408
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Discipline reform, school culture, and student achievement
Craig, Ashley C.; Martin, David - 2023
Does relaxing strict school discipline improve student achievement, or lead to classroom disorder? We study a 2012 reform in New York City public middle schools that eliminated suspensions for non-violent, disorderly behavior. Math scores of students in more-affected schools rose by 0.05...
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Nowcasting the impact of COVID-19 on education, intergenerational mobility and earnings inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Neidhöfer, Guido; Lustig, Nora; Larroulet, Patricio - 2022 - This version: June 2022
rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On … completion is higher. However, a small additional impact on girls’ education due to the Covid-19 induced rise in teenage … pregnancy is observed in some countries. Intergenerational mobility of education decreases from 1 to close to 50 percent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013275358
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Social interventions, health and wellbeing : the long-term and intergenerational effects of a school construction program
Mazumder, Bhashkar; Rosales, Maria Fernanda; Triyana, … - 2019
We analyze the long-run and intergenerational effects of a large-scale school building project (INPRES) that took place in Indonesia between 1974 and 1979. Specifically, we link the geographic rollout of INPRES to longitudinal data from the Indonesian Family Life Survey covering two generations....
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Endogenous divorce and human capital production
Gosling, Amanda; García-Alonso, María del Carmen - 2015
This paper presents a model of parental decision making where parents care about consumption and the human capital of the children. Preferences over these goods can differ within households. Parents will agree to cooperate (stay married) if the utility they get from coordinating time inputs (ie...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011384019
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School curricula, educational trajectories, and labor market outcomes
Arold, Benjamin W. - 2022
Benjamin W. Arold prepared this study while he was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo … the classroom and beyond. Chapter 2 demonstrates that the abolishment of compulsory religious education in Germany does … children and participating in the labor market. Chapter 3 provides evidence that the content of science education standards in …
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