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operate through employment, education, and income. …
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rules in the 1920s. -- Education ; migrations ; economic history ; economic development research …
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This paper examines the 1997 additions to the Current Population Survey education question. These new questions allow … imputed "highest grade completed" is one-tenth grade greater and the estimated return to education .6 to 1 percentage points …
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This paper explores families' investment in skills development through education in a high-inequality, low-education … quality country such as Mexico, comparing it to a lower-inequality, higher-quality education country such as the United States … years and different methodological approaches. Of particular interest is the analysis of education expenditure patterns …
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This paper examines the impact of state merit-aid programs on the labor market attachment of high school-aged youths. The labor force participation rate of teenagers has fallen substantially in recent decades, coinciding with the introduction of merit-aid programs. These programs reduce the...
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This paper examines the impact of state merit-aid programs on the labor market attachment of high school-aged youths. The labor force participation rate of teenagers has fallen substantially in recent decades, coinciding with the introduction of merit-aid programs. These programs reduce the...
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Accounting Index and Government Effectiveness Index, and 3) Educational indicators, including public education expenditure per … of indicators are highly correlated in several ways, due to the important positive effects of education on economic …
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from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System on all public four-year colleges and universities from 1991 to 2007 … from one year to the next have a disproportionately large negative effect on enrollment. -- Higher education ; tuition …
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This paper shows a somehow counterintuitive result: an increase in the exam difficulty may reduce the average quality (productivity) of selected individuals. Since the exam does not verify all skills, when its standard rises, candidates with relatively low skills emphasized in the test and high...
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We provide evidence that the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth reflects a causal effect of cognitive skills and supports the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking student achievement across countries, over...
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