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Reducing regional disparities for inclusive growth in Spain
McGowan, Muge Adalet; San Millán, Juan Antona - 2019
barriers and better innovation policies would boost productivity. Effective intergovernmental coordination bodies and a well …
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The education-innovation gap
Biasi, Barbara; Ma, Song - 2022
This paper documents differences across higher-education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Comparing the … text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we construct the "education-innovation gap," a syllabus's relative … proximity to old and new knowledge. We show that courses differ greatly in the extent to which they cover frontier knowledge …
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Symposium on child development and parental investment : introduction
Francesconi, Marco; Heckman, James J. - 2016
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Money or fun? : why students want to pursue further education
Belfield, Chris; Boneva, Teodora; Rauh, Christopher; … - 2016
We study students' motives for educational attainment in a unique survey of 885 secondary school students in the UK. As expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full-time education. However, the main driver is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521174
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Parental job loss and children's careers
Huttunen, Kristiina; Riukula, Krista - 2019
We study the effect of parental job loss on children's outcomes using administrative data from Finland. We focus on two channels through which parental job loss can affect children's careers: 1) by affecting the child's field of study choices and 2) by weakening social ties to the labor market....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138694
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Selection and educational attainment : why some children are left behind? : evidence from a middle-income country
Méndez-Errico, Luciana; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2019
We model schooling as a sequential process and examine why some children are left behind. We focus on the factors that explain selection at early stages of the education system. Our findings for Uruguay suggest that long-term factors, such as parental background or ethnicity matter across all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011977441
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Genes, education, and labor market outcomes : evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Thom, Kevin - 2017
Recent advances have led to the discovery of specific genetic variants that predict educational attainment. We study how these variants, summarized as a genetic score variable, are associated with human capital accumulation and labor market outcomes in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657586
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Genes, education, and labor market outcomes : evidence from the health and retirement study
Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Thom, Kevin - 2016
Recent advances have led to the discovery of specific genetic variants that predict educational attainment. We study how these variants, summarized as a genetic score variable, are associated with human capital accumulation and labor market outcomes in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532114
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Money or fun? : why students want to pursue further education
Belfield, Chris; Boneva, Teodora; Rauh, Christopher; … - 2016
We study students' motives for educational attainment in a unique survey of 885 secondary school students in the UK. As expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full-time education. However, the main driver is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011534003
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Educação e o rendimento dos ricos no Brasil
Souza, Marcelo Medeiros Coelho de; Galvão, Juliana Castro - 2015
We examine the extent to which education is a main determinant of affluence in Brazil. We focus on workers in the top 1% of the labor earnings distribution. We use university courses data from the Sample Questionnaire of the 2010 Census. Our main conclusion is that while education may be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010509625