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Can education compensate low ability? Evidence from british data

Denny, Kevin; O'Sullivan, Vincent - 2004

This paper uses cross section data to investigate whether the returns to education vary with the level of ability …, clear evidence that the return to schooling is lower for those with higher ability indicating that education can act as a … that education is also a substitute for unobserved ability. …

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Student Abilities During the Expansion of US Education

Hendricks, Lutz; Schoellman, Todd - 2013

The US experienced two dramatic changes in the structure of education in a fifty year period. The first was a large …

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Entrepreneurial school dropouts: A model on signalling, education and entrepreneurship

Skogstrøm, Jens Fredrik Baumgarten - 2012

asymmetric information. The model shows that, in a labour market where education is used as a signalling device, an imperfect … relationship between productivity in education and in the labour market can lead to an equilibrium where a fraction of the high … is prediction is confirmed empirically: Individuals combining low education with high ability have the highest …

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Leadership Skills and Wages

Kuhn, Peter; Weinberger, Catherine - 2002

American business seems to be infatuated with its workers? ?leadership? skills. Is there such a thing, and is it rewarded in labor markets? Using the Project Talent, NLS72 and High School and Beyond datasets, we show that men who occupied leadership positions in high school earn more as adults,...

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Schooling and the AFQT : Evidence from School Entry Laws

Cascio, Elizabeth U.; Lewis, Ethan - 2005

Is the Armed Forces Qualifying Test (AFQT) a measure of achievement or ability? The answer to this question is critical for drawing inferences from studies in which it is employed. In this paper, we test for a relationship between schooling and AFQT performance in the NLSY 79 by comparing...

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The Effect of Schooling and Ability on Achievement Test Scores

Hansen, Karsten T.; Heckman, James Joseph; Mullen, … - 2003

This paper develops two methods for estimating the effect of schooling on achievement test scores that control for the endogeneity of schooling by postulating that both schooling and test scores are generated by a common unobserved latent ability. These methods are applied to data on schooling...

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Labor Market Discrimination and Racial Differences in Premarket Factors

Carneiro, Pedro; Heckman, James Joseph; Masterov, … - 2005

. Adjusting the scores for racial/ethnic differences in education at the time the test is taken reduces their role in accounting … for the wage gaps. We also consider evidence on parental and child expectations about education and on stereotype …

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The effect of schooling and ability on achievement test scores

Hansen, Karsten T; Heckman, James J; Mullen, Kathleen J - 2003

This paper develops two methods for estimating the effect of schooling on achievement test scores that control for endogeneity of schooling by postulating that both schooling and test scores are generated by a common unobserved latent ability. These methods are applied to data on schooling and...

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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000

We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …

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Student abilities during the expansion of US education

Hendricks, Lutz; Schoellman, Todd - 2013

The US experienced two dramatic changes in the structure of education in a fifty year period. The first was a large …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223398