Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 19,101
Cover Image
Ageing and literacy skills : evidence from Canada, Norway and the United States
Green, David A.; Riddell, William Craig - 2012
-sectional data arises from offsetting ageing and cohort effects. Individuals from a given birth cohort lose literacy skills after … distribution. -- human capital ; cognitive skills ; literacy ; ageing …We study the relationship between age and literacy skills in Canada, Norway and the U.S. &- countries that represent a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009533968
Cover Image
Ageing and Literacy Skills : Evidence from Canada, Norway and the United States
Green, David A. - 2012
-sectional data arises from offsetting ageing and cohort effects. Individuals from a given birth cohort lose literacy skills after …We study the relationship between age and literacy skills in Canada, Norway and the U.S. – countries that represent a … wide range of literacy outcomes – using data from the 1994 and 2003 International Adult Literacy Surveys. In cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108260
Cover Image
Ageing and literacy skills : evidence from Canada, Norway and the United States
Green, David A.; Riddell, William Craig - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 22 (2013), pp. 16-29
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009766873
Cover Image
Ageing and literacy skills : evidence form Canada, Norway and the United States
Green, David A.; Riddell, Craig W. - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009540981
Cover Image
Television, cognitive ability, and high school completion
Hernæs, Øystein; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2016
We exploit supply-driven heterogeneity in the expansion of cable television across Norwegian municipalities to identify developmental effects of commercial television exposure during childhood. We find that higher exposure to commercial television reduces cognitive ability and high school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449853
Cover Image
Not the best fillers in of forms? : the Danish and Norwegian graduate biographies and "upper tail knowledge"
Ford, Nicholas Martin; Ranestad, Kristin; Sharp, Paul - 2023
measures of "average" or "non-upper tail" human capital such as literacy and years of schooling. We thus turn to perhaps unique …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014429309
Cover Image
Schools, ability, and the socioeconomic gradient in education choices
Falch, Torberg; Strøm, Bjarne - 2011
This paper provides evidence on the socioeconomic gradient in dropout and progression in upper secondary education in Norway. Using a rich data set covering all students transferring from compulsory education to upper secondary education in 2002, we find that student achievement at the end of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274827
Cover Image
Schools, ability, and the socioeconomic gradient in education choices
Falch, Torberg; Strøm, Bjarne - 2011
This paper provides evidence on the socioeconomic gradient in dropout and progression in upper secondary education in Norway. Using a rich data set covering all students transferring from compulsory education to upper secondary education in 2002, we find that student achievement at the end of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009009229
Cover Image
Schools, Ability, and the Socioeconomic Gradient in Education Choices
Falch, Torberg; Strøm, Bjarne - 2021
This paper provides evidence on the socioeconomic gradient in dropout and progression in upper secondary education in Norway. Using a rich data set covering all students transferring from compulsory education to upper secondary education in 2002, we find that student achievement at the end of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316108
Cover Image
Learning a living : first results of the adult literacy and life skills survey
2005
Based on the Adult Literacy and Life Skills survey conducted in Bermuda, Canada, Italy, Mexico (Nuevo Leon), Norway … -- Skills and information and communications technologies -- Skills and immigration -- Skills, parental education and literacy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002875925