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The long-term effects of job training on labor market and skills outcomes in Chile
Doerr, Annabelle; Novella, Rafael - 2020
Job training programs can be an eective policy for improving productivity and labor market outcomes in low and middle income countries. We report medium and long-term impacts of a job training program for vulnerable workers in Chile on labor market and skill outcomes using experimental and...
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Outcome mechanisms for improved employment and earnings through screened job training: evidence from an RCT
Baird, Matthew; Engberg, John Barker; Gutierrez, Italo A. - 2021
This study fills a gap in the literature on the outcome mechanisms in which successful training programs improve employment and earnings, such as raises on the job or longer job duration. The city of New Orleans implemented a job training program as an RCT for low-income workers. Individuals in...
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The effect of school voucher spending on initial earnings
Correa, Juan A.; Parro, Francisco; Sánchez, Rafael - 2021
We quantify the effect of school voucher spending on initial earnings. We use administrative data on the monetary …
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On the Validity of Season of Birth as an Instrument in Wage Equations : A Comment on Angrist & Krueger'S "Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Scho
Bound, John; Jaeger, David A. - 2021
In an important and provocative paper, `Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings?', Angrist and … of their estimates, they argue that compulsory school attendance laws alone account for the association between quarter … strong to be fully explained by compulsory school attendance laws in the samples studied by Angrist and Krueger. Moreover …
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Constrained optimisation? : teacher salaries, school resources and student achievement
Greaves, Ellen; Sibieta, Luke - In: Economics of education review 73 (2019), pp. 1-17
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On the Validity of Season of Birth as an Instrument in Wage Equations : A Comment on Angrist & Krueger's "Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Scho
Bound, John - 1996
In an important and provocative paper, `Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings?', Angrist and … of their estimates, they argue that compulsory school attendance laws alone account for the association between quarter … strong to be fully explained by compulsory school attendance laws in the samples studied by Angrist and Krueger. Moreover …
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Attracting and Retaining Highly Effective Educators in Hard-to-Staff Schools
Morgan, Andrew J.; Nguyen, Minh; Hanushek, Eric Alan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Efforts to attract and retain effective educators in high poverty public schools have had limited success. Dallas ISD addressed this challenge by using information produced by its evaluation and compensation reforms as the basis for effectiveness-adjusted payments that provided large...
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Vocational training and labor market outcomes in Brazil
Reis, Maurício Cortez - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 15 (2015) 1, pp. 377-405
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Schooling and labor market consequences of school construction in Indonesia: comment
Roodman, David - 2023
Duflo (2001) exploits a 1970s schooling expansion in Indonesia to estimate the returns to schooling. Under the study's difference-in-differences (DID) design, two patterns in the data-shallower pay scales for younger workers and negative selection in treatment-can violate the parallel trends...
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Should states allow early school enrollment? : an analysis of individuals' long-term labor market effects
Görlitz, Katja; Heß, Pascal; Tamm, Marcus - 2024
This study provides a policy evaluation of laws allowing early school enrollment of children, i.e., enrollment before … the official school starting age. It investigates the effects of early enrollment on educational attainment, wages and … employment. While the school starting age is usually determined by children's date of birth and legal cutoffs, some German states …
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