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Breaking ties : regression discontinuity design meets market design
Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila; Angrist, Joshua D.; Narita, Yusuke - 2019
schools, combined with lottery tie-breaking at unscreened schools. We show how to identify causal effects of school attendance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011989205
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Determinants of financial literacy among German students : an empirical analysis
Riebe, Katharina - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 89 (2020) 4, pp. 39-53
Finanzkompetenzen haben für die gesellschaftliche Teilhabe eine hohe Bedeutung. Dieser Beitrag führt eine empirische Evaluation der Determinanten der Finanzkompetenz von Studierenden an einer deutschen Hochschule durch. Ein weiteres Ziel ist auch die Identifizierung der geschlechtsspezifischen...
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Transfer College Quality and Student Performance
Dills, Angela K.; Hernández-Julián, Rey - 2007
We examine how students that transfer credit for an introductory-level course from schools of varying quality perform in a subsequent intermediate-level course, holding constant many student characteristics. We measure college quality by the percent of students admitted, the faculty-student...
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The Effects of Attendance on Academic Performance : Panel Data Evidence for Introductory Microeconomics
Stanca, Luca - 2013
This paper presents new evidence on the effects of attendance on academic performance. We exploit a large panel data … with attendance, such as ability, effort and motivation. We find that neither proxy variables nor instrumental variables … provide a viable solution to the omitted variable bias. Panel estimators indicate that attendance has a positive and …
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Are student absences worth the worry in US primary schools?
Gershenson, Seth; Jacknowitz, Alison; Brannegan, Andrew - 2015
Student absences are a potentially important, yet understudied, input in the educational process. Using longitudinal data from a nationally-representative survey and rich administrative records from North Carolina, we investigate the relationship between student absences and academic...
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Rates of return to university education : the regression discontinuity design
Fan, Elliott; Meng, Xin; Wei, Zhichao; Zhao, Guochang - 2010
Estimating the rate of return to a university degree has always been difficult due to the problem of omitted variable biases. Benefiting from a special feature of the University Admission system in China, which has clear cutoffs for university entry, combined with a unique data set with...
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Do stepping stone jobs exist? : early career paths in the medical profession
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Holm, Anders; Ours, Jan C. van - 1999
In the Netherlands, students who want to become a medical specialist have toenrol in a training program which is in limited supply. During the search for aposition as trainee (or "junior medical specialist"), they may accept atemporary job as a medical assistant. We use a micro data set to...
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Education, health and wages
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Veramendi, Gregory - 2014
This paper develops and estimates a model with multiple schooling choices that identifies the causal effect of different levels of schooling on health, health-related behaviors, and labor market outcomes. We develop an approach that is a halfway house between a reduced form treatment effect...
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The causal effect of age at migration on youth educational attainment
Lemmermann, Dominique; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2016
We investigate the causal effect of age at migration on subsequent educational attainment in the destination country. To identify the causal effect we compare the educational attainment of siblings at age 21, exploiting the fact that they typically migrate at different ages within a given...
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Does early child care help or hurt childrens's development?
Felfe, Christina; Lalive, Rafael - 2014
More children than ever attend center-based care early in life. We study whether children who attend center-based care before age 3 have better or worse language and motor skills, socio-emotional maturity, and school readiness just before entering primary school. In data covering about 36,000...
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