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Do teachers' college majors affect students' academic achievement in the sciences? : a cross-subfields analysis with student-teacher fixed effects
Inoue, Atsushi; Tanaka, Ryūichi - 2022
We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within-student variation across subfields in natural science (i.e., physics, chemistry, biology, and Earth science). Using middle-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics...
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Labor market returns to college education with vocational qualifications
Rzepka, Sylvi - 2016
Deutschland auszahlt, mit einer beruflichen Qualifikation ein Studium aufzunehmen im Vergleich zu Personen, die ihre … ausbildungsbasierte Laufbahn fortsetzen. Ich schätze hierfür die Auswirkungen einer Immatrikulation an einer Hochschule auf die berufliche …, die eine ausbildungsbasierte Laufbahn einschlagen. Zudem arbeiten beruflich Qualifizierte nach dem Studium in …
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Centralized admission and the student-college match
Machado, Cecilia; Szerman, Christiane - 2016
Decentralized assignments in the education market have been increasingly replaced by centralized ones. However, empirical evidence on these transitions are scarce. This paper examines the adoption of centralized admissions in the Brazilian higher education market. Using rich administrative data,...
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The effects of graduating from high school in a recession : college investments, skill formation, and labor-market outcomes
Hampf, Franziska; Piopiunik, Marc; Wiederhold, Simon - 2020
We investigate the short- and long-term effects of economic conditions at high-school graduation as a source of exogenous variation in the labor-market opportunities of potential college entrants. Exploiting business cycle fluctuations across birth cohorts for 28 developed countries, we find...
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Mapping the (mis)match of university degrees in the graduate labor market
Salas-Velasco, Manuel - In: Journal for labour market research 55 (2021) 1, pp. 1-23
This paper contributes to the scarce literature on the topic of horizontal education-job mismatch in the labor market for graduates of universities. Field-of-study mismatch or horizontal mismatch occurs when university graduates, trained in a particular field, work in another field at their...
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University selectivity, initial job quality, and longer-run salary
Weinstein, Russell - 2017
Using Baccalaureate and Beyond data, I study whether university quality, both absolute and relative to other universities in the region, affects earnings one and ten years after graduation, controlling for the individual's SAT score. One year after graduation, high SAT score students earn 12%...
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Education, skills & labor-market success : microeconometric analyses using large-scale skills assessments
Hampf, Franziska Bernadette - 2020
Franziska Bernadette Hampf prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education. The study was completed in September 2019 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical...
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Weighting recent performance to improve college and labor market outcomes
Bulman, George - In: Journal of public economics 146 (2017), pp. 97-108
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Skill complementarities and returns to higher education : evidence from college enrollment expansion in China
Li, Hongbin; Ma, Yueyuan; Meng, Lingsheng; Qiao, Xue; … - In: China economic review : an international journal 46 (2017), pp. 10-26
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Do teachers' college majors affect students' academic achievement in the sciences? : a cross subfields analysis with student-teacher fixed effects
Inoue, Atsushi; Tanaka, Ryūichi - 2022
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