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Institutional Determinants of Student Achievement - Microeconometric Evidence
Link, Susanne - 2013
This volume was prepared by Susanne Link during her stay at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Department of Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute of Economic Research. It was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Departure of the University of Munich in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698340
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Institutional determinants of student achievement : microeconometric evidence
Link, Susanne - 2013
This volume was prepared by Susanne Link during her stay at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Department of Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute of Economic Research. It was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Departure of the University of Munich in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744092
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Cultural heritage and growth
Faria, João Ricardo; León-Ledesma, Miguel - 2003
In an attempt to measure the impact of cultural heritage on growth, this paper matches the definition of culture as a stock with the cultural heritage list provided by UNESCO, as it is a variable that changes at a very low pace. We test the hypothesis on whether the existence of a strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290650
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Selection on ability and the early career growth in the gender wage gap
Fraga, Eduardo; Gonzaga, Gustavo; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2017
This paper analyzes the effect of selection on ability on the evolution of the gender wage gap during the first years … Brazil. The panel allows us to build a measure of unobserved ability that we use to analyze the dynamics of labor market … of formal labor market participation. For this cohort, the average ability of formally employed men improved in relation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664412
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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2000
education is a risky investment. These results suggest a positive interaction between schooling and ability with respect to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262344
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Leadership Skills and Wages
Kuhn, Peter; Weinberger, Catherine - 2002
American business seems to be infatuated with its workers? ?leadership? skills. Is there such a thing, and is it rewarded in labor markets? Using the Project Talent, NLS72 and High School and Beyond datasets, we show that men who occupied leadership positions in high school earn more as adults,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262770
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The Effect of Schooling and Ability on Achievement Test Scores
Hansen, Karsten T.; Heckman, James Joseph; Mullen, … - 2003
endogeneity of schooling by postulating that both schooling and test scores are generated by a common unobserved latent ability … measured test scores are slightly larger for lower latent ability levels. We find that schooling increases the AFQT score on … by estimating the impact of schooling on measured test scores at various quantiles of the latent ability distribution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274201
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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000
education is a risky investment. These results suggest a positive interaction between schooling and ability with respect to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325999
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Leadership skills and wages
Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Weinberger, Catherine - 2002
American business seems to be infatuated with its workers' "leadership" skills. Is there such a thing, and is it rewarded in labor markets? Using the Project Talent, NLS72 and High School and Beyond datasets, we show that men who occupied leadership positions in high school earn more as adults,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411183
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The effect of schooling and ability on achievement test scores
Hansen, Karsten T.; Heckman, James J.; Mullen, Kathleen J. - 2003
endogeneity of schooling by postulating that both schooling and test scores are generated by a common unobserved latent ability … measured test scores are slightly larger for lower latent ability levels. We find that schooling increases the AFQT score on … by estimating the impact of schooling on measured test scores at various quantiles of the latent ability distribution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573529