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Public schooling in the U.S. has numerous critics, many of whom suggest that alternatives such as providing vouchers for private schools may be more effective. This paper combines decennial census and American Community Survey data for various years to examine the relationship between...
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) interstate differences in wages are not consistent with a simple school quality–wage relation; we cannot assume a simple national … school quality evaluation appears insufficient to resolve the ambiguous link between school quality and wages. In addition … finally, (7) it is unclear whether the positive correlations between wages and either school expenditures or teachers' wages …
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Duflo (2001) exploits a 1970s schooling expansion in Indonesia to estimate the returns to schooling. Under the study's difference-in-differences (DID) design, two patterns in the data-shallower pay scales for younger workers and negative selection in treatment-can violate the parallel trends...
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the official school starting age. It investigates the effects of early enrollment on educational attainment, wages and …This study provides a policy evaluation of laws allowing early school enrollment of children, i.e., enrollment before … employment. While the school starting age is usually determined by children's date of birth and legal cutoffs, some German states …
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insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression … balance between two offsetting forces: UI causes agents to seek higher-wage jobs, but also reduces wages by lengthening … both in our sample and across studies, reconciling disparate wage-effect estimates. Empirically, UI raises wages by …
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life and possibly also on wages. …
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Using Difference-in-Differences estimation and data from the European Community Household Panel, this paper suggests that the fixed exchange-rate policy adopted by Italy in the 1997-2000 period has reduced the real hourly wage growth of Italian fulltime workers with permanent contracts, on...
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