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Linking Education Choice to Institutions and Peers
Joensen, Juanna Schrøter - 2020
of advanced math-science in high school. We show how it amplified the fall in math-science skills and triggered gender …
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Head Start and the Distribution of Long Term Education and Labor Market Outcomes
de Haan, Monique - 2016
In this paper we investigate the effect of Head Start on long term education and labor market outcomes using data from the NLSY79. The contributions to the existing literature on the effectiveness of Head Start are threefold: (1) we are the first to examine distributional effects of Head Start...
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Why to Invest in Your Neighbor? Social Contract on Educational Investment
Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - 2004
It may be in the interest of low-ability individuals to subsidize the education of high-ability individuals. Sufficient conditions are surprisingly mild: positive externalities in education and complementarity in production between human capital and labor supllied by the low-ability individuals....
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On the optimal allocation of students when peer effects are at work: tracking vs. mixing
Hidalgo-Hidalgo, Marisa - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 2 (2011) 1, pp. 31-52
The belief that both the behavior and outcomes of students are affected by their peers is important in shaping education policy. I analyze two polar education systems -tracking and mixing- and propose several criteria for their comparison. I find that tracking is the system that maximizes...
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Gender Mix and Team Performance : Differences between Exogenously and Endogenously Formed Teams
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Zaccagni, Sarah - 2021
We conduct a randomized controlled trial to study the effect of gender composition of teams on performance, self … school students into two groups: we assign students in one group to teams of varying gender composition using random …-formed gender-biased teams prefer even more gender-biased teams ex-post. Our results also show that female-predominant teams under …
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Motivation, resources and the organization of the school system
Albornoz, Facundo; Berlinski, Samuel G.; Cabrales, Antonio - 2016
This paper studies a model where student effort and talent interact with parental and teachers' investments, as well as with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for example, that an improvement in parental outside...
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A big fish in a small pond : ability rank and human capital investment
Elsner, Benjamin; Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2015
We study the impact of a student's ordinal rank in a high school cohort on educational attainment several years later. To identify a causal effect, we compare multiple cohorts within the same school, exploiting idiosyncratic variation in cohort composition. We find that a student's ordinal rank...
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Peer Effects, Cooperation and Competition in Human Capital Formation
Zárate, Román - 2012
Economic literature has identified positive effects of peer abilities on individual achievement. However, the intuitive arguments supporting this evidence are not clear. This article presents a specific mechanism: cooperation and competition among group members; more precisely, the presence of...
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Underrepresentation, quotas and quality : a dynamic argument for reform
Arve, Malin; Valasek, Justin - 2023
The trade-off between increased representation and perceived quality is central to the debate on how to address underrepresentation in high-profile professions. We address this trade-off using a dynamic model of career selection where juniors value both the identity and perceived quality of...
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Gender wage gaps and risky vs. secure employment : an experimental analysis
Jung, Seeun; Choe, Chung; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2016
In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … contribute to observed gender wage gaps. We conduct laboratory experiments in which subjects choose between a risky (in terms of … more likely than men to select the secure job, and these job choices accounted for between 40% and 77% of the gender wage …
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