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Parental and school responses to student performance : evidence from school entry rules
Fredriksson, Peter; Öckert, Björn; Tilley, J. Lucas - 2024
We examine whether parental and school investments reinforce or compensate for student performance. Our analysis exploits school-starting-age rules in 34 countries, capturing achievement variation that arises because younger children typically underperform their older peers. Parents respond to...
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Motivation, resources and the organization of the school system
Albornoz, Facundo; Berlinski, Samuel G.; Cabrales, Antonio - 2016
also provides a novel microfoundation for peer effects, with empirical implications for welfare and different education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521209
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What is the Private Return to Tertiary Education? New Evidence from 21 OECD Countries
Boarini, Romina; Strauss, Hubert - 2011
This article provides estimates of the private Internal Rates of Return to tertiary education for women and men in 21 …-country comparable individual-level data. Labour market premia are then adjusted for fiscal factors and costs of education. We find that … returns to an additional year of tertiary education are on average above 8% and vary in a range from 4% to 15% in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014181349
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The returns to elite college education : a quasi-experimental analysis
Anelli, Massimo - 2016
threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011531928
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The returns to elite college education : a quasi-experimental analysis
Anelli, Massimo - 2016
threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011536219
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New Schools and New Classmates : The Disruption and Peer Group Effects of School Reassignment
Hill, Darryl V.; Hughes, Rodney P.; Lenard, Matthew A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Policy makers periodically consider using student assignment policies to improve educational outcomes by altering the socio-economic and academic skill composition of schools. We exploit the quasi-random reassignment of students across schools in the Wake County Public School System to estimate...
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Variation of learning intensity in late adolescence and the impact on noncognitive skills
Büttner, Bettina; Thiel, Hendrik; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2011
Despite the interdependence between cognitive and noncognitive skills, empirical studies have shown a longer period of acquisition in life-time for the latter besides relevance for educational and labor market success. Analyzing returns of investments during different periods of life is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008901881
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152937
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Chapter 2. The Production of Human Capital in Developed Countries : Evidence From 196 Randomized Field Experiments
Fryer, R.G. - 2017
Randomized field experiments designed to better understand the production of human capital have increased exponentially over the past several decades. This chapter summarizes what we have learned about various partial derivatives of the human capital production function, what important partial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023424
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School curricula, educational trajectories, and labor market outcomes
Arold, Benjamin W. - 2022
Benjamin W. Arold prepared this study while he was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo … the classroom and beyond. Chapter 2 demonstrates that the abolishment of compulsory religious education in Germany does … children and participating in the labor market. Chapter 3 provides evidence that the content of science education standards in …
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