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Do higher levels of education and skills in an area benefit wider society?
Winters, John V. - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
Formal schooling increases earnings and provides other individual benefits. However, societal benefits of education may … exceed individual benefits. Research finds that increased average education levels in an area are correlated with higher … earnings, even for locals with relatively little education. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404964
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A model of human capital, time discounting and economic growth
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2008
development regimes and it illustrates wider role of education in tackling possible development traps. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322280
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Does High School Homework Increase Academic Achievement?
Kalenkoski, Charlene Marie; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2014
Although previous research has shown that homework improves students' academic achievement, the majority of these studies use data on students' homework time from retrospective questionnaires, which are less accurate than time-diary data. However, most time-diary data sets do not contain outcome...
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Lost Boys: Access to Secondary Education and Crime
Huttunen, Kristiina; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Uusitalo, Roope; … - 2019
We study the effect of post-compulsory education on crime by exploiting a regression discontinuity design generated by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984644
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Do higher levels of education and skills in an area benefit wider society?
Winters, John V. - In: IZA World of Labor (2018)
Formal schooling increases earnings and provides other individual benefits. However, societal benefits of education may … exceed individual benefits. Research finds that higher average education levels in an area are correlated with higher … earnings, even for local residents with minimal education. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984689
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Another Look at the New York City School Voucher Experiment
Krueger, Alan B.; Zhu, Pei - 2003
This paper reexamines data from the New York City school choice program, the largest and best implemented private school scholarship experiment yet conducted. In the experiment, low-income public school students in grades K-4 were eligible to participate in a series of lotteries for a private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262236
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Child Labor and the Education of a Society
Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans - 2001
We examine economic growth, inequality and education when the wellspring of growth is the formation of human capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262545
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Employment Opportunities and High School Completion during the COVID-19 Recession
Ahn, Kunwon; Lee, Jun Yeong; Winters, John V. - 2020
pandemic recession encouraged more young people to complete high school. The pandemic created extensive problems in education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322601
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Discipline Reform, School Culture, and Student Achievement
Craig, Ashley C; Martin, David - 2023
Does relaxing strict school discipline improve student achievement, or lead to classroom disorder? We study a 2012 reform in New York City public middle schools that eliminated suspensions for non-violent, disorderly behavior. Math scores of students in more-affected schools rose by 0.05...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296650
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Can intensive early childhood intervention programs eliminate income-based cognitive and achievement gaps?
Duncan, Greg J.; Sojourner, Aaron J. - 2012
-based early childhood education intervention? Data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), which randomly assigned …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291393