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Economic growth, comparative advantage, and gender differences in schooling outcomes : evidence from the birthweight differences of Chinese Twins
Rosenzweig, Mark Richard; Zhang, Junsen - 2012
, it shows that the comparative advantage of females in skill is reflected in their greater investment in education and in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696201
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Economic Growth, Comparative Advantage, and Gender Differences in Schooling Outcomes: Evidence from the Birthweight Differences of Chinese Twins
Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Zhang, Junsen - 2012
, it shows that the comparative advantage of females in skill is reflected in their greater investment in education and in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507364
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Unequal opportunities and human capital formation
Mejίa, Daniel; St-Pierre, Marc - 2005
This paper develops a tractable, heterogeneous agents general equilibrium model where individuals have different endowments of the factors that complement the schooling process. The paper explores the relationship between inequality of opportunities, inequality of outcomes, and efficiency in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275770
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Unequal Opportunities and Human Capital Formation
Mejía, Daniel; St-Pierre, Marc - 2021
This paper develops a tractable, heterogeneous agents general equilibrium model where individuals have different endowments of the factors that complement the schooling process. The paper explores the relationship between inequality of opportunities, inequality of outcomes, and efficiency in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318771
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342692
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A dynamic model of personality, schooling, and occupational choice
Todd, Petra; Zhang, Weilong - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 11 (2020) 1, pp. 231-275
to play an important role in explaining education and occupation choices over the lifecycle. Results show that … the heterogeneity in how people respond to educational policies. The estimated model is used to evaluate two education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012202247
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The effect of teenage employment on character skills, expectations and occupational choice strategies
Fuchs, Benjamin - 2016 - This draft: September 22, 2016
A growing body of research suggests that, even after controlling for cognitive abilities, personality predicts economic success in later life. The learning environment at school focuses on knowledge and cognitive skills. The transmission of character skills, however, is not at the center of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011554485
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Do teachers' college majors affect students' academic achievement in the sciences? : a cross-subfields analysis with student-teacher fixed effects
Inoue, Atsushi; Tanaka, Ryūichi - 2022
We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within-student variation across subfields in natural science (i.e., physics, chemistry, biology, and Earth science). Using middle-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013163502
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Gender role models and early career decisions
Löwe, Monique; Rinne, Ulf; Sonnabend, Hendrik - 2021
This paper analyzes the link between the subject choices of German students in upper secondary school and teacher gender when these choices are taken. Our results corroborate the hypothesis that teacher gender matters in this regard, and they indicate that girls respond more strongly than boys...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607597
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Who matters most? : the effect of parent's schooling on children's schooling
Gang, Ira N. - 1996
This paper examines the differential effects of mother's schooling and father's schooling on the acquisition of schooling by their offspring. It does this in a 'cross-cultural' context by comparing results across three countries: Germany, Hungary and the Former Soviet Union. It looks within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011576871