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Doubly robust estimation of causal effects with multivalued treatments

Uysal, S. Derya - 2013

. The results indicate that, on average, the percentage wage gain due to higher education versus any other lower educational …

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Student mobility in low quality schools : segmentation among the most vulnerable students

Román, Marcela; Perticará, Marcela - In: Estudios de economía 39 (2012) 2, pp. 159-177

This study addresses the phenomenon of permanence for long years of low performance (urban) schools, measured by SIMCE. We also analyze mobility of students to other schools of same or better quality. The results show that student's mobility rates in these schools is almost 11%. Almost 30% of...

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Overeducation at a glance : determinants and wage effects of the educational mismatch, looking at the AlmaLaurea data

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2013

both types of the educational mismatch. The quality of education is also a factor, suggesting that in addition to the low …

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The earnings of immigrants and the quality adjustment of immigrant human capital

Sharaf, Mesbah - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-18

returns to schooling and over-education rates by country-of-origin. The key finding is that accounting for schooling quality … virtually eliminates native-immigrant gaps in returns to schooling and the incidence of over-education. The quality of human …

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What is the economic value of literacy and numeracy? : basic skills in literacy and numeracy are essential for success in the labor market

Vignoles, Anna - 2016

Even in OECD countries, where an increasing proportion of the workforce has a university degree, the value of basic skills in literacy and numeracy remains high. Indeed, in some countries the return for such skills, in the form of higher wages, is sufficiently large to suggest that they are in...

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Segmented life-cycle labor markets : Portuguese evidence

Martins, Ana Paula - 2011

interpreted as the growth rate - net of depreciation - of earnings ability propitiated by schooling when years of education are … information - are also investigated. Then, the trend coefficient measures the (steady-state) nominal productivity growth; the … experience coefficients approximate individuals' earnings profiles growth rates net of the human capital depreciation rate …

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How do hurricanes impact achievement in school? : a Caribbean perspective

Spencer, Nekeisha; Polachek, Solomon W.; Strobl, Eric - 2016

This study examines whether hurricanes have any impact on performance in standardized examinations. The analysis uses a panel of thirteen Caribbean countries and over 800 schools for the period 1993 through 2010. In particular, the effect on subjects in the humanities and sciences are examined....

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Teacher literacy and numeracy skills : international evidence from PIAAC and ALL

Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Vermeulen, Stan; Wolf, Inge de - 2016

Using the OECD-studies PIAAC and ALL, this paper shows that teachers on average have better literacy and numeracy skills than other respondents in almost all of the 15 countries in the samples. In most countries, teachers outperform others in the bottom percentiles, while in some countries they...

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Privately managed public secondary schools and academic achievement in Trinidad and Tobago : evidence from rule-based student assignments

Beuermann, Diether W.; Jackson, Clement; Sierra, Ricardo - 2015

Many nations allow private entities to manage publicly funded schools and grant them greater flexibility than traditional public schools. However, isolating the causal effect of attending these privately managed public schools relative to attending traditional public schools is difficult because...

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Student awareness of costs and benefits of educational decisions : effects of an information campaign and media exposure

McGuigan, Martin; McNally, Sandra; Wyness, Gill - 2014

in higher education. We investigate students' knowledge and their receptiveness to information campaigns about the costs … and benefits of staying on in education. We compare the effects of a specially designed information campaign to the …

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