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Delayed Graduation and University Dropout : A Review of Theoretical Approaches

Aina, Carmen - 2019

This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two...

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Is Child Like Parent? Educational Attainment and Ethnic Origin

Gang, Ira N.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2021

The speed at which immigrants assimilate is the subject of debate. Human capital formation plays a major role in this discussion. This paper compares the educational attainment of second generation immigrants to those of natives in the same age cohort. Evidence using a large German data set...

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Is child like parent? : Educational attainment and ethnic origin

Gang, Ira N.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999

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Is child like parent? : educational attainment and ethnic origin

Gang, Ira N.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999

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Is child like parent? : educational attainment and ethnic origin

Gang, Ira N.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999

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Education and pro-family altruistic discrimination against foreigners : five-country comparisons

Sasaki, Shusaku; Okuyama, Naoko; Ōgaki, Masao; Ōtake, … - 2017

foreigners. However, the degree of discrimination differs across countries. It is lowest in Germany and largest in Japan; the … questions in internet surveys across five countries: Germany, the US, Singapore, South Korea, and Japan. Our analysis shows that … education and altruistic discrimination differ widely. In Germany, people who have spent less time in education exhibit lower …

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Endogenous indoctrination : occupational choice, the evolution of beliefs, and the political economy of reform

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009

Much of the political economy analysis of reform focuses on the conflict of interest between groups that stand to gain or lose from the competing policy proposals. In reality, there is also a lot of disagreement about the working of the policy: in addition to conflicting interests, conflicting...

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Wanna get away? : RD identification away from the cutoff

Angrist, Joshua D.; Rokkanen, Miikka - 2013

In the canonical regression discontinuity (RD) design for applicants who face an award or admissions cutoff, causal effects are nonparametrically identified for those near the cutoff. The effect of treatment on inframarginal applicants is also of interest, but identification of such effects...

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Public policy for efficient education

Fisher, Walter H.; Keuschnigg, Christian - 2000

This paper studies the role of public policy to promote efficiency in human capital accumulation in the representative agent framework. Agents accumulate human capital by spending time in home study and in publicly provided schools. The individual faces an aggregate externality in the...

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Study versus television

Browning, Martin James; Heinesen, Eskil - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 3 (2014), pp. 1-16

The great majority of studies on the effect of school quality on academic outcomes do not take account of changes in student choices concerning effort if school quality, e.g. class size, changes. We show that empirical estimates of the "total" effect of changes in school quality could be quite...

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