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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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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
-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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-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/10011625378
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 … 8th grade. We observe that the eventual high school graduates in this group have much better postsecondary education …
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This article investigates the biases involved in estimating the effects of teacher attributes on school’s performance. The study was performed for Chilean educational system, where student distribution is differentiated by schools and teachers are not randomly assigned to them. Findings showed...
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This paper studies oligopolistic competition in education markets when schools can be private and public and when the … quality of education depends on "peer group" effects. In the first stage of our game schools set their quality and in the … public schools as regulatory tool in an otherwise private education sector. -- education ; peer-group effects ; mixed duopoly …
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. Applying this logic to Education, he recommended that students be provided with vouchers and allowed to purchase schooling … market design might be necessary to ensure that competition enhances educational performance. -- education ; markets …
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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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. Applying this logic to Education, he recommended that students be provided with vouchers and allowed to purchase schooling …
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