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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...
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The impact of local labour market conditions on school leaving decisions
Tumino, Alberto; Taylor, Mark P. - 2015
We use data from the British Household Panel Survey and Labour Force Survey to analyse the relationship between the demand for post compulsory education and prevailing labour market conditions in Britain. We explicitly incorporate the role of family resources by allowing effects to differ...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011284936
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The relative importance of local labour market conditions and pupil attainment on post-compulsory schooling decisions
Meschi, Elena; Swaffield, Joanna K.; Vignoles, Anna - 2011
This paper assesses the relative importance of local labour market conditions and pupil educational attainment as primary determinants of the post-compulsory schooling decision. Using a nested logit model we formally incorporate the structured and sequential decision process pupils engage with....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009521193
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The Impact of Cohort Size and Local Labor Market Conditions on Human Capital Accumulation in Europe
Middendorf, Torge - 2007
Recent studies emphasize the impact of macroeconomic factors on educational attainment. They show that although individual factors like the educational level of one's parents play a decisive role in determining the human capital accumulation of the children, the cohort size as well as the local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050192
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The Relative Importance of Local Labour Market Conditions and Pupil Attainment on Post-Compulsory Schooling Decisions
Meschi, Elena F. - 2011
This paper assesses the relative importance of local labour market conditions and pupil educational attainment as primary determinants of the post-compulsory schooling decision. Using a nested logit model we formally incorporate the structured and sequential decision process pupils engage with....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117843
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The PISA shock, socioeconomic inequality, and school reforms in Germany
Davoli, Maddalena; Entorf, Horst - 2018
, informs about important policy reforms following the PISA shock in 2000. It further gives a description of the current …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011901978
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Effects of parental health shocks on children's school achievements : A register-based population study
Aaskoven, Maiken Skovrider - 2020
shock reduces investments in children, it may have long-lasting implications on the children's future socioeconomic status …-2000, this paper studies how a severe parental health shock affects children's school achievements. We use coarsened exact … survival rates to measure the size of the health shock. We findrobust negative effects of a parental health shock on children …
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Family Shocks and Academic Achievement
Hull, Marie - 2015
Disruptions in family life can take many forms, but all have the potential to impact student learning. With school administrative data matched to birth records, I estimate the effect of unexpected changes in the home environment, or family shocks, on achievement. Identification comes from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016300
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Sheepskin effects in Japan
Bauer, Thomas K.; Dross, Patrick J.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2002
Using data for the 1990's, this paper examines the role of sheepskin effects in the returns to education for Japan. Our estimations indicate that sheepskin effects explain about 50% of the total returns to schooling. We further find that sheepskin effects are only important for workers in small...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413686
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Head start and the distribution of long term education and labor market outcomes
Haan, Monique de; Leuven, Edwin - 2016
In this paper we investigate the effect of Head Start on long term education and labor market outcomes using data from the NLSY79. The contributions to the existing literature on the effectiveness of Head Start are threefold: (1) we are the first to examine distributional effects of Head Start...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458920