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(educational) success. This chapter shows how information on the differences in academic-track attendance by parental background in … results show that information about the automatability of one's occupation affects labor-market expectations and increases the … zeigt, wie Information über die Unterschiede in den Raten des Gymnasialbesuchs nach elterlichem Hintergrund in Deutschland …
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Benjamin W. Arold prepared this study while he was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in March 2022 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the LMU Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that...
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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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A commonly held perception is that an elite graduate degree can "scrub" a less prestigious but less costly undergraduate degree. Using data from the National Survey of College Graduates from 2003 through 2017, this paper examines the relationship between the status of undergraduate degrees and...
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This paper investigates the impact of immigration on the college enrollment of U.S. natives. Many studies have focused on the effect of increased demand for schooling by immigrants on the enrollment of natives. However, changes in immigrant labor supply may also affect native enrollment by...
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-quality university programs, and job-education mismatches. More university graduates in this context could exacerbate unemployment …, underemployment, and overeducation of professionals. Whether governments should regulate the quantity or quality of university …
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openness, associated with imagination and exploration, is a substitute for information provision by educated parents and thus …
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We examine changes in inequality in socio-emotional skills very early in life in two British cohorts born 30 years … activities, respectively. Using recent methodological advances in factor analysis, we establish comparability in the inequality … of these early skills across cohorts, but not in their average level. We document for the first time that inequality in …
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the labour market, the university chooses to use them as a criterion for selection alongside the mastery of more subject …
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university schooling outcomes and high school behavior. We find substantial correlations between test scores and long-run TVA but …
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