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The Effect of Education on Adult Health and Mortality : Evidence from Britain
Clark, Damon - 2010
There is a strong, positive and well-documented correlation between education and health outcomes. There is much less … evidence on the extent to which this correlation reflects the causal effect of education on health - the parameter of interest … education on health. Our approach exploits two changes to British compulsory schooling laws that generated sharp differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462640
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The Effect of Education on Adult Health and Mortality : Evidence from Britain
Clark, Damon - 2010
There is a strong, positive and well-documented correlation between education and health outcomes. There is much less … evidence on the extent to which this correlation reflects the causal effect of education on health - the parameter of interest … education on health. Our approach exploits two changes to British compulsory schooling laws that generated sharp differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143175
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"A" is the aim?
Danilowicz-Gösele, Kamila - 2016
This paper analyzes professors' effect from a fundamental first-year course in Economics on students' later performance in follow-on courses with a special attention given to the problem of self-selection bias of students toward certain professors. Based on an extensive dataset consisting of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011563302
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The effect of education on adult health and mortality : evidence from Britain
Clark, Damon; Royer, Heather - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003972561
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Early-years multi-grade classes and pupil attainment
Borbely, Daniel; Gehrsitz, Markus; McIntyre, Stuart; … - 2021
We study the effect of exposure to older, more experienced classroom peers resulting from the widespread use of multi-grade classes in Scottish primary schools. For identification, we exploit that a class-planning algorithm quasi-randomly assigns groups of pupils to multi-grade classes. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607794
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Early-Years Multi-Grade Classes and Pupil Attainment
Borbely, Daniel; Gehrsitz, Markus; McIntyre, Stuart G.; … - 2022
We study the effect of exposure to older, more experienced classroom peers resulting from the widespread use of multi-grade classes in Scottish primary schools. For identification, we exploit that a class-planning algorithm quasi-randomly assigns groups of pupils to multi-grade classes. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014087469
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Preferences and opportunities in the marriage market : how comprehensive schooling made the wealthy marry down
Holmlund, Helena - 2022
This paper documents that a shift from a selective to a comprehensive education system had implications for marriage market outcomes. By exploiting an education reform in Sweden, I show that comprehensive education reduced assortative mating both because children from poor backgrounds started to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013256476
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The gender wage gap across life : effects of genetic predisposition towards higher educational attainment
Bryson, Alex; Morris, Tim; Bann, David; Wilkinson, David - 2024
Using two polygenic scores (PGS) for educational attainment in a biomedical study of all those born in a single week in Great Britain in 1958 we show that the genetic predisposition for educational attainment is associated with labour market participation and wages over the life- course for men...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015052802
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On educational performance measures
Muriel, Alastair; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2011
Quantitative school performance measures (QPMs) are playing an ever larger role in education systems on both sides of the Atlantic. In this paper we outline the rationale for the use of such measures in education, review the literature relating to several important problems associated with their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312119
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On Educational Performance Measures
Muriel, Alastair - 2011
Quantitative school performance measures (QPMs) are playing an ever larger role in education systems on both sides of the Atlantic. In this paper we outline the rationale for the use of such measures in education, review the literature relating to several important problems associated with their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121550