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Procrastination, academic success and the effectiveness of a remedial program
De Paola, Maria; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2014
Procrastination produces harmful effects for human capital investments and studying activities. Using data from a large sample of Italian undergraduates, we measure procrastination with the actual behaviour of students, considering the delay in finalizing their university enrolment procedure. We...
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The contributions of search and human capital to earnings growth over the life cycle
Bowlus, Audra J.; Liu, Huju - 2012
This paper presents and estimates a unified model where both human capital investment and job search are endogenized. This unification enables us to quantify the relative contributions of each mechanism to life cycle earnings growth, while investigating potential interactions between human...
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Anticipations and endogenous present bias
Galperti, Simone; Strulovici, Bruno - 2015 - Preliminary and incomplete
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Effect of dropout on labour market outcomes for upper secondary vocational track students
Bratberg, Espen; Monstad, Karin; Steskal, Darina - 2022
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Delayed graduation and university dropout : a review of theoretical approaches
Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2019
university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does …. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two stages of the same decision repeated over the years to step aside or leave … when the net returns to education expected ex ante are negative. Failure can also be taken as a signal of the real skills …
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Delayed graduation and university dropout : a review of theoretical approaches
Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2019
university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does …. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two stages of the same decision repeated over the years to step aside or leave … when the net returns to education expected ex ante are negative. Failure can also be taken as a signal of the real skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149211
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Human Capital and the Lifetime Costs of Impatience
Cadena, Brian C.; Keys, Benjamin J. - 2012
In this paper, we examine the role of impatience in the formation of human capital - arguably the most important investment decision individuals make during their lifetimes. We pay particular attention to a set of investment behaviors that cannot be explained solely by variation in exponential...
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Peer effects in secondary education : evidence from trends in mathematics and science study 2015 based on weak-tie bonds
Dannemann, Bernhard C. - 2019 - This version: February 2019
Peer effects in education production functions are predominantly employed as the mean classroom performance. Based on …
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Peer effects in secondary education : evidence from the 2015 trends in mathematics and science study based on homophily
Dannemann, Bernhard C. - 2020 - This Version: January 2020
estimation of education production functions. In this paper, based on the sociological concept of homophily, I introduce social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012164148
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Job search, human capital and wage inequality
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 2012
The objective of this paper is to construct and quantitatively assess an equilibrium search model with on-the-job search and general human capital accumulation. In the model workers enter the labour market with different abilities and firms differ in their productivities. Wages are dispersed...
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