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Chapter 15 Drinking from the Fountain of Knowledge: Student Incentive to Study and Learn – Externalities, Information Problems and Peer Pressure
Bishop, John - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 2, (pp. 909-944). 2006
Students face four decision margins: (a) How many years to spend in school, (b) What to study, (c) How much effort to devote to learning per year and (d) Whether to disrupt or assist the learning of classmates. The thousands of studies that have applied human capital theory to the first two...
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Do teachers' college majors affect students' academic achievement in the sciences? : a cross-subfields analysis with student-teacher fixed effects
Inoue, Atsushi; Tanaka, Ryūichi - 2022
We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within-student variation across subfields in natural science (i.e., physics, chemistry, biology, and Earth science). Using middle-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics...
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The role of labour market expectations and admission probabilities in students' application decisions on higher education : the case of Hungary
Varga, Júlia - 2003
strategies to higher education. The starting hypothesis of this study is that students consider the expected utility of their …-priced education. The results of this paper confirm that both expected wages and admission probabilities determine students …
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Student aid, academic achievement and labor market behavior
Joensen, Juanna Schrøter; Mattana, Elena - 2017
discrete choice model of simultaneous education, work, and student loan take-up decisions. We use administrative panel data and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796430
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The Private Internal Rates of Return to Tertiary Education : New Estimates for 21 OECD Countries
Boarini, Romina - 2007
This study provides estimates of the private Internal Rates of Return (IRR) to tertiary education for women and men in …-country comparable individual-level data. Labour market premia are then adjusted for fiscal factors and education cost. Returns to an … additional year of tertiary education are, on average, above 8% and vary in a range from 4 to 15% in the countries and in the …
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Delayed graduation and university dropout : a review of theoretical approaches
Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2019
when the net returns to education expected ex ante are negative. Failure can also be taken as a signal of the real skills … of individuals who do not succeed to gain a higher level of education. The job search approach underlines the role of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110312
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Delayed graduation and university dropout : a review of theoretical approaches
Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2019
when the net returns to education expected ex ante are negative. Failure can also be taken as a signal of the real skills … of individuals who do not succeed to gain a higher level of education, The job search approach underlines the role of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149211
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What is the Private Return to Tertiary Education? New Evidence from 21 OECD Countries
Boarini, Romina; Strauss, Hubert - 2011
This article provides estimates of the private Internal Rates of Return to tertiary education for women and men in 21 …-country comparable individual-level data. Labour market premia are then adjusted for fiscal factors and costs of education. We find that … returns to an additional year of tertiary education are on average above 8% and vary in a range from 4% to 15% in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014181349
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Does student work really affect educational outcomes? : a review of the literature
Neyt, Brecht; Omey, Eddy; Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2017
We review the theories put forward, methodological approaches used, and empirical conclusions found in the multidisciplinary literature on the relationship between student employment and educational outcomes. A systematic comparison of the empirical work yields new insights that go beyond the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119627
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Does student work really affect educational outcomes? : a review of the literature
Neyt, Brecht; Omey, Eddy; Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2017
We review the theories put forward, methodological approaches used, and empirical conclusions found in the multidisciplinary literature on the relationship between student employment and educational outcomes. A systematic comparison of the empirical work yields new insights that go beyond the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732061