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Persistence of the school entry age effect in a system of flexible tracking
Puhani, Patrick A.; Weber, Andrea Maria - 2007
secondary education. To investigate the importance of such revisions, we use administrative data on the student population in … different cohorts and grades up to the end of secondary education. We show that the effect of original school entry age on a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277084
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Whose children gain from starting school later? Evidence from Hungary
Hámori, Szilvia; Kollo, Janos - 2011
We look at the effect of school starting age on standardized test scores using data covering all grade four and grade eight students in Hungary. Instrumental variables estimates of the local average treatment effect suggest that children generally gain from starting school one year later and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278579
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Whose Children Gain from Starting School Later? Evidence from Hungary
Hámori, Szilvia; Köllő, János - 2011
We look at the effect of school starting age on standardized test scores using data covering all grade four and grade eight students in Hungary. Instrumental variables estimates of the local average treatment effect suggest that children generally gain from starting school one year later and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494714
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Compulsory schooling reforms, education and mortality in twentieth century Europe
Gathmann, Christina; Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen - 2012
Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large … compulsory education both in the shorter and longer run. In contrast, compulsory schooling reforms have little or no effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281040
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Compulsory schooling reforms, education and mortality in twentieth century Europe
Gathmann, Christina; Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen - 2012
Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large … compulsory education both in the shorter and longer run. In contrast, compulsory schooling reforms have little or no effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282359
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How does education improve cognitive skills? : instructional time versus timing of instruction
Dahmann, Sarah - 2015
This paper investigates two mechanisms through which education may affect cognitive skills in adolescence: the role of …. Overall, secondary education therefore seems to impact students'cognitive skills in adolescence especially through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011287017
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Compulsory schooling reforms, education and mortality in twentieth century Europe
Gathmann, Christina; Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen - 2012
Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality – ranging from zero to large … compulsory education both in the shorter and longer run. In contrast, compulsory schooling reforms have little or no effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489910
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Does education really cause domestic violence? : revisiting the Turkish data
Akyol, Şaziye Pelin; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2021
women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control behavior that they face from their partners …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012655310
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Does education really cause domestic violence? : revisiting the Turkish data
Akyol, Şaziye Pelin; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2021
women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control behavior that they face from their partners …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012624582
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Home broadband and human capital formation
Sanchis-Guarner, Rosa; Montalbán, José; Weinhardt, Felix - 2021
This paper estimates the effect of home high-speed internet on national test scores of students at age 14. We combine comprehensive information on the telecom network, administrative student records, house prices and local amenities in England in a fuzzy spatial regression discontinuity design...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418611