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Do a Few Months of Compulsory Schooling Matter? : The Education and Labour Market Impact of School Leaving Rules
Del Bono, Emilia; Galindo-Rueda, Fernando - 2004
students compelled to stay on in education as a result of this compulsory school leaving rule attain higher qualification …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261989
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Assortative mating on education : a genetic assessment
Barban, Nicola; De Cao, Elisabetta; Oreffice, Sonia; … - 2019
We investigate assortative mating on education using a sample of couples from the Health and Retirement Study. We … estimate a reduced-form linear matching function, which links wife's education to husband's education and both wife's and … husband's unobservable characteristics. Using OLS we find that an additional year in husband's education is associated with an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099447
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Vulnerable boys : short-term and long-term gender differences in the impacts of adolescent disadvantage
Lei, Ziteng; Lundberg, Shelly - 2020
The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised concerns that the skill development of boys may be more sensitive to family disadvantage than that of girls. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) data we find, as do...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012164784
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School performance, score inflation and economic geography
Battistin, Erich; Neri, Lorenzo - 2017
We show that grading standards for primary school exams in England have triggered an inflation of quality indicators in the national performance tables for almost two decades. The cumulative effects have resulted in significant differences in the quality signaled to parents for otherwise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011756120
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School performance, score inflation and economic geography
Battistin, Erich; Neri, Lorenzo - 2017
We show that grading standards for primary school exams in England have triggered an inflation of quality indicators in the national performance tables for almost two decades. The cumulative effects have resulted in significant differences in the quality signaled to parents for otherwise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763856
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Voluntary work and wages
Bruno, Bruna; Fiorillo, Damiano - 2014
The effects of voluntary work on earnings have recently been studied for some developed countries such as Canada, France and Austria. This paper extends this line of research to Italy, using data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) dataset. A double...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527209
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IV Quantile Regression for Group-Level Treatments, with an Application to the Effects of Trade on the Distribution of Wages
Chetverikov, Denis - 2013
We present a methodology for estimating the distributional effects of an endogenous treatment that varies at the group level when there are group-level unobservables, a quantile extension of Hausman and Taylor (1981). Standard quantile regression techniques are inconsistent in this setting, even...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071528
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The impact of teenage motherhood on the education and fertility of their children: Evidence for Europe
Navarro, María; Walker, Ian - 2012
schooling changes as the source of exogenous variation. We impose external estimates of the direct effect of maternal education … findings suggest that the child's probability of post compulsory education decreases when born to a teenage mother, and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289950
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School quality and the development of cognitive skills between age four and six
Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Zölitz, Ulf - 2015
This paper studies the extent to which young children develop their cognitive ability in high and low quality schools. We use a representative panel data set containing cognitive test scores of 4-6 year olds in Dutch schools. School quality is measured by the school's average achievement test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307980
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School value-added and longterm student outcomes
Kirkebøen, Lars J. - 2021
Several recent studies find that interventions in schools can have important lasting consequences for students, and that schools differ in their contribution to students' learning. However, there is less research investigating how these differences between schools influence longer-term outcomes,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012800668