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Skills are a central source of high productivity and economic well-being. But what do we mean by productive skills? Both with regard to measurement and policy, the primary focus in the U.S. has been on academic skills, as measured by tests of reading, writing and math abilities and by...
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Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates - to approximately … the same level as their male athletic participation rates - in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that … provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic participation. This paper examines the causal implications of this …
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unemployment rates, sharp declines in the employed share of U.S. adults, extremely high youth unemployment, high wage inequality … effectively with skill mismatches, wage inequality, declines in manufacturing employment, and high youth unemployment, why has the … Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD 2009) review of youth employment, have recommended expanding apprenticeship training …
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-secondary schooling enrollment. Average impacts reveal that the hefty beneficial educational outcomes quickly faded away. Heterogeneity …
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endogeneity of schooling costs. To overcome this issue, I use two measures of direct costs that are plausibly exogenous: living …
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-secondary schooling enrollment. Average impacts reveal that the hefty beneficial educational outcomes quickly faded away. Heterogeneity …
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endogeneity of schooling costs. To overcome this issue, I use two measures of direct costs that are plausibly exogenous: living … vary by family income, parent education, race or gender. -- Schooling Costs ; Educational Attainment ; Financial Aid Policy …
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Policy makers periodically consider using student assignment policies to improve educational outcomes by altering the socio-economic and academic skill composition of schools. We exploit the quasi-random reassignment of students across schools in the Wake County Public School System to estimate...
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Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates - to approximately … the same level as their male athletic participation rates - in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that … provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic participation. This paper examines the causal implications of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266109