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Basic reading and mathematics skills and the labour market outcomes of young people : evidence from PISA and linked administrative data
Meehan, Lisa; Pacheco, Gail; Schober, Thomas - 2023
education. While men with low skills out-earn their higher-skilled counterparts when they are very young, their earnings are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014228646
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The long-run educational benefits of high-achieving classrooms
Canaan, Serena; Mouganie, Pierre; Zhang, Peng - 2022
Despite the prevalence of school tracking, evidence on whether it improves student success is mixed. This paper studies how tracking within high school impacts high-achieving students' short- and longer-term academic outcomes. Our setting is a large and selective Chinese high school, where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012819570
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The Impact of Internship Experience during Secondary Education on Schooling and Labour Market Outcomes
Neyt, Brecht - 2019
The literature on workplace learning in secondary education has mainly focussed on vocational education programmes. In … this study, we examine the impact of internship experience in secondary education on a student's schooling and early labour … sequential outcomes by means of a dynamic discrete choice model. In line with the literature on vocational education programmes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858841
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Thailand's education system and skills imbalances : assessment and policy recommendations
Vandeweyer, Marieke; Espinoza, Ricardo; Reznikova, Laura; … - 2020
capacity of Thailand’s education and training system to develop relevant skills from the pre-primary to higher education level … relevant teacher training, and sustained competitiveness of higher education institutions as key areas for improvement. It also … points to large skills shortages in the education, and health and social work sectors, and prevalent qualification and field …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012421216
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Early skill gap effects on long-run outcomes and parental investments
Celhay, Pablo A.; Gallegos, Sebastián - 2019
This paper examines the effects of skill advantages at age six on different types of parental investments, and long-run outcomes up to age 27. We exploit exogenous variation in skills due to school entry rules, combining 20 years of Chilean administrative records with a regression discontinuity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152937
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The causal effects of adolescent school : bullying victimisation on later life outcomes
Gorman, Emma; Harmon, Colm; Mendolia, Silvia; Staneva, Anita - 2019
We use rich data on a cohort of English adolescents to analyse the long-term effects of experiencing bullying victimisation in junior high school. The data contain self-reports of five types of bullying and their frequency, for three waves of the data, when the pupils were aged 13 to 16 years....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993979
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023424
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The Long-Run Educational Benefits of High-Achieving Classrooms
Canaan, Serena; Mouganie, Pierre; Zhang, Peng - 2021
Despite the prevalence of school tracking, evidence on whether it improves student success is mixed. This paper studies how tracking within high school impacts high-achieving students’ short- and longer-term academic outcomes. Our setting is a large and selective Chinese high school, where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013310408
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Can vocational education improve schooling and labour outcomes? : evidence from a large expansion
Ferreira, João R.; Martins, Pedro S. - 2023
We evaluate the education and labour impact of vocational education and training (VET). Identification draws on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014366880
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How Informal Mentoring by Teachers, Counselors, and Coaches Supports Students' Long-Run Academic Success
Kraft, Matthew A.; Bolves, Alexander J.; Hurd, Noelle M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We document a largely unrecognized pathway through which schools promote human capital development - by fostering informal mentoring relationships between students and teachers, counselors, and coaches. Using longitudinal data from a nationally representative sample of adolescents, we explore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287357