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the macro literature on education and growth. The fraction of the population more efficient at producing skills in the …) effect education on growth measured in the empirical literature. …
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-cycle wage growth of U.S. white males into four main sources: education, hours worked, cognitive skills (AFQT scores) and … individual differences in hours worked and education explain the remaining part almost equally. We show how our model is a … education. Finally, because policy changes induce simultaneous movements in observed choices and average per-year effects …
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the macro literature on education and growth. The fraction of the population more efficient at producing skills in the …) effect education on growth measured in the empirical literature. -- compulsory schooling reforms ; dynamic skill accumulation … ; comparative advantages ; returns to schooling ; education and growth ; dynamic discrete choice ; dynamic programming …
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-cycle wage growth of U.S. white males into four main sources: education, hours worked, cognitive skills (AFQT scores) and … individual differences in hours worked and education explain the remaining part almost equally. We show how our model is a … education. Finally, because policy changes induce simultaneous movements in observed choices and average per-year effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960276
the macro literature on education and growth. The fraction of the population more efficient at producing skills in the …) effect education on growth measured in the empirical literature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117619
bilingual. The dominant group chooses the education system, and then individuals decide whether to attend school. While agents … implementation of the socially optimal education system, while the unilingual system is too often implemented under minority rule. In … bilingualism in education may not be related to the size of language groups. …
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. Applying this logic to Education, he recommended that students be provided with vouchers and allowed to purchase schooling …
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The paper suggests that international differences in educational institutions explain the large international differences in student performance in cognitive achievement tests. A microeconometric student-level estimation based on data for more than 260,000 students from 39 countries reveals that...
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route to post-secondary education. The paper develops a model pointing out the potential biases in estimating the effects of … taking the GED path to postsecondary education. Lacking suitable instruments that would allow us to directly address …th grade. We observe that the eventual high school graduates in this group have much better postsecondary education …
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Peer effects have figured prominently in debates on school vouchers, desegregation, ability tracking and anti-poverty programs. Compelling evidence of their existence remains scarce for plaguing endogeneity issues such as selection bias and the reflection problem. This paper is among the first...
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