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Schooling supply and the structure of production : evidence from US states 1950―1990
Ciccone, Antonio; Peri, Giovanni - 2013
We find that over the period 1950–1990, states in United States absorbed increases in the supply of schooling due to … tighter compulsory schooling and child labor laws mostly through within-industry increases in the schooling intensity of … production. Shifts in the industry composition towards more schooling-intensive industries played a less important role. To try …
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The information value of central school exams
Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
The central vs. local nature of high-school exit exam systems can have important repercussions on the labor market. By increasing the informational content of grades, central exams may improve the sorting of students by productivity. To test this, we exploit the unique German setting where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283115
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The information value of central school exams
Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
The central vs. local nature of high-school exit exam systems can have important repercussions on the labor market. By increasing the informational content of grades, central exams may improve the sorting of students by productivity. To test this, we exploit the unique German setting where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283839
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Student assessment and grade retention : evidence from a natural experiment ; conference paper
Kimura, Marlies; Ochsen, Carsten - 2014
In Germany and many other countries, students are tracked into various secondary school types. This paper studies whether parents or teachers assess students potential educational performance more adequately. Educational attainment is measured by grade retention rates. We take advantage of a...
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The Dynamics of School Attainment of Englands Ethnic Minorities
Briggs, Adam - 2008
secondary schooling. Second, much of this improvement occurs in the high-stakes exams at the end of compulsory schooling. Third …
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The Information Value of Central School Exams
Schwerdt, Guido - 2015
The central vs. local nature of high-school exit exam systems can have important repercussions on the labor market. By increasing the informational content of grades, central exams may improve the sorting of students by productivity. To test this, we exploit the unique German setting where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016372
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The Information Value of Central School Exams
Schwerdt, Guido - 2015
The central vs. local nature of high-school exit exam systems can have important repercussions on the labor market. By increasing the informational content of grades, central exams may improve the sorting of students by productivity. To test this, we exploit the unique German setting where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020502
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Why subsidize independent schools? : estimating the effect of a unique Canadian schooling model on educational attainment
Lefebvre, Pierre; Merrigan, Philip - 2021
estimate the ATT effect of independent schooling on educational attainment. We find large, positive, robust, and statistically … significant effects of independent schooling on attainment. The robustness of the results to omitted variable bias is addressed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012501142
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Students' behavioural responses to a fallback option : evidence from introducing interim degrees in German schools
Obergruber, Natalie; Zierow, Larissa - 2018
Without a school degree, students can have difficulty in the labor market. To improve the lives of upper-secondary school dropouts, German states instituted a school reform that awarded an interim degree to high-track students upon completion of Grade 9. Using retrospective spell data on school...
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The educational effects of school start times : delaying secondary school start times can be a cost-effective policy to improve students' grades and test scores
Shapiro, Teny Maghakian - 2015
The combination of changing sleep patterns in adolescence and early school start times leaves secondary school classrooms filled with sleep-deprived students. Evidence is growing that having adolescents start school later in the morning improves grades and emotional well-being, and even reduces...
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