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Locus of control and human capital investment decisions : the role of effort, parental preferences and financial constraints
Szabó-Morvai, Ágnes; Kiss, Hubert János - 2020
We study the relationship between locus of control (LoC) and human capital investment decisions in the adolescence, using PDS lasso to exploit high-dimensional data. While LoC is not significantly associated with graduation from high school once we use exogenous controls, it correlates strongly...
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Thailand's education system and skills imbalances : assessment and policy recommendations
Vandeweyer, Marieke; Espinoza, Ricardo; Reznikova, Laura; … - 2020
In light of population ageing, globalisation, automation, and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Thailand’s labour market is being significantly reshaped, and so are the skills required for higher employability. This paper analyses the capacity of Thailand’s education and training system...
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Non-college occupations, workplace routinization, and the gender gap in college enrollment
Chuan, Amanda; Zhang, Weilong - 2023
This paper explores how non-college occupations contributed to the gender gap in college enrollment, where women overtook men in college-going. Using instrumental variation from routinization, we show that the decline of routine-intensive occupations displaced the non-college occupations of...
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Education expansion, college choice and labour market success
Braccioli, Federica; Ghinetti, Paolo; Moriconi, Simone; … - 2022
and the counterfactual outcomes associated with the choice of a STEM or non-STEM college. Instrumental variation is … induced by the proximity to universities offering STEM and/or non-STEM degrees. The empirical analysis uses confidential … faculties. We find that about 2.4% of individuals in our sample would choose a STEM college if there was one in their province …
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Human capital potential of India's future workforce
Mehdi, Ali; Chaudhry, Divya - 2015
. However, such concern has been largely missing as far as the future workforce is concerned. This paper discusses India … preprimary education. In conclusion, India will have to focus, inter alia, on early health and preschooling (soft skill …
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Excellence for all? : university honors programs and human capital formation
Pugatch, Todd; Thompson, Paul N. - 2022 - Last updated: June 7, 2022
performance in natural science courses. Results suggest that selective Honors programs can accelerate skill acquisition for high …
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Excellence for all? : university honors programs and human capital formation
Pugatch, Todd; Thompson, Paul N. - 2022
first-generation students decrease in response to Honors admission, driven by low performance in natural science courses …
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Education and innovation : the long shadow of the cultural revolution
Huang, Zhangkai; Phillips, Gordon M.; Yang, Jialun; … - 2020 - This version: May 9, 2020
The Cultural Revolution deprived Chinese students of the opportunity to receive higher education for 10 years when colleges and universities were closed from 1966-1976. We examine the human capital cost of this loss of education on subsequent innovation by firms, and ask if it impacted firms...
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Digging deep : resource exploitation and higher education
Balza, Lenin H.; Rios Rueda, Camilo de los; Rivera, … - 2022
Do resource-extraction booms crowd out postsecondary education? We explore this question by examining the higher education-related decisions of Chilean high school graduates during the 2000s commodities boom. We find mineral extraction increases a person's likelihood of enrolling in...
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Imperfect signals
Graetz, Georg - 2023
A pre-condition for employer learning is that signals at labor market entry do not fully reveal graduates' productivity. I model various distinct sources of signal imperfection - such as noise and multi-dimensional types - and characterize their implications for the private return to skill...
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