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How does education improve cognitive skills? : instructional time versus timing of instruction
Dahmann, Sarah - 2015
This paper investigates two mechanisms through which education may affect cognitive skills in adolescence: the role of …. Overall, secondary education therefore seems to impact students'cognitive skills in adolescence especially through …
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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 …
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Home broadband and human capital formation
Sanchis-Guarner, Rosa; Montalbán, José; Weinhardt, Felix - 2021
This paper estimates the effect of home high-speed internet on national test scores of students at age 14. We combine comprehensive information on the telecom network, administrative student records, house prices and local amenities in England in a fuzzy spatial regression discontinuity design...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418611
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Home broadband and human capital formation
Sanchis-Guarner, Rosa; Montalbán, José; Weinhardt, Felix - 2021
This paper estimates the effect of home high-speed internet on national test scores of students at age 14. We combine comprehensive information on the telecom network, administrative student records, house prices and local amenities in England in a fuzzy spatial regression discontinuity design...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012423667
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Chapter 12 Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation
Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J.; Lochner, Lance; … - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 1, (pp. 697-812). 2006
This paper presents economic models of child development that capture the essence of recent findings from the empirical literature on skill formation. The goal of this essay is to provide a theoretical framework for interpreting the evidence from a vast empirical literature, for guiding the next...
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Education return and financing : donated affluence as consequence of tuition free study programs in Germany
Petersen, Hans-Georg; Kirchner, Markus - 2008
The paper sheds some light on the education returns in Germany in the post war period. After describing higher … education in Germany the current stand of higher education financing within the single states is presented. In six states … renders results which proof that the higher education advantages are quite remarkable and might be a justification for more …
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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...
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The design of the university system
De Fraja, Gianni; Valbonesi, Paola - 2009
operate in a private system. -- Higher education ; The organisation of the university sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008654524
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Improving reading skills by encouraging children to read : a randomized evaluation of the Sa Aklat Sisikat Reading Program in the Philippines
Abeberese, Ama Baafra; Kumler, Todd J.; Linden, Leigh L. - 2011
effect persisted even after the program ended with an effect of 0.06 standard deviations three months later. -- education …
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Parental responses to public investments in children : evidence from a maximum class size rule
Fredriksson, Peter; Öckert, Björn; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2015
We study differential parental responses to variation in class size induced by a maximum class size rule in Swedish schools. In response to an increase in class size: (i) only high-income parents help their children more with homework; (ii) all parents are more likely to move their child to...
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