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Are there no wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany? : a reassessment
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2021
This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and von Wachter (Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3), 592-598), which is unusual in the literature yet widely cited and until now uncontradicted. I document that this finding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012547022
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Are there no wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany? : a reassessment
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2021
This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and von Wachter (Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3) 2008, 592-598), which is unusual in the literature yet widely cited and until now uncontradicted. I document that this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550294
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Heterogeneous effects of missing out on a place at a preferred secondary school in England
Gorman, Emma; Walker, Ian - 2020
available. In this paper, we use nationally representative cohort data linked to administrative education records to study the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012203074
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Conscription and educational outcomes : quasi-experimental evidence from the Republic of Cyprus
Savčić, Ružica; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos; Xefteris, … - 2020
Peacetime military service has both positive and negative effects on human capital. While it depreciates academic abilities it also enhances non-cognitive skills. The net effect of conscription is hard to identify due to issues of self-selection, endogenous timing and omitted variables bias. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262207
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Is Additional Schooling Worthless? Revising the Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2018
This study estimates the effect of compulsory schooling on earnings. For identification, I exploit a German reform that extended the duration of secondary schooling in the 1960s. I find that hourly wages increase by 6%-8% per additional year of schooling. This result challenges prior findings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908790
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Are There No Wage Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany? A Reassessment
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2021
This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and von Wachter (Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3), 592-598), which is unusual in the literature yet widely cited and until now uncontradicted. I document that this finding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222195
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The Social Side of Early Human Capital Formation : Using a Field Experiment to Estimate the Causal Impact of Neighborhoods
List, John A.; Momeni, Fatemeh; Zenou, Yves - 2021
The behavioral revolution within economics has been largely driven by psychological insights, with the sister sciences playing a lesser role. This study leverages insights from sociology to explore the role of neighborhoods on human capital formation at an early age. We do so by estimating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252072
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The returns to school-quality-adjusted education of immigrants in Germany
Quang, Huy Le; Vallizadeh, Ehsan - In: Journal for labour market research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-15
gap in the returns to education between natives and immigrants in Germany, especially when we consider the quality of … schooling in the source country where education was obtained. In particular, lower school quality reduces the endowment … advantage that immigrants possess from their education. Second, quality-adjusted education helps us to better understand the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013272284
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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
Can public university honors programs deliver the benefits of selective undergraduate edu- cation within otherwise nonselective institutions? We evaluate the impact of admission to the Honors College at Oregon State University, a large nonselective public university. Admission to the Honors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013258921
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The Need for a Human Capital (Education-Labor) Sector
Reeves, Toinu - 2021
After accumulating USD 1.5 trillion, the US education sector educated 25 million Americans, or just over 15% of the … workforce, that were ineligible for 1 million jobs for which it had to import labor.The Indian education sector spending 4 …-5% average for all occupations.Although the US education system is developing an overall better product, given the requirements …
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