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Public sector decentralization and school performance: International evidence
Falch, Torberg; Fischer, Justina A.V. - In: Economics Letters 114 (2012) 3, pp. 276-279
Using a panel of international student test scores 1980–2000 (PISA and TIMSS), panel fixed effects estimates suggest that government spending decentralization is conducive to student performance. The effect does not appear to be mediated through levels of educational spending.
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School quality and the education–health relationship: Evidence from Blacks in segregated schools
Frisvold, David; Golberstein, Ezra - In: Journal of Health Economics 30 (2011) 6, pp. 1232-1245
school year, amplify the beneficial effects of education on several measures of health in later life, including self …
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Nonparametric Identification in Structural Economic Models
Matzkin, Rosa L. - In: Annual Review of Economics 5 (2013) 1, pp. 457-486
Structural economic models allow one to analyze counterfactuals when economic systems change and to evaluate the well-being of economic agents. A key element in such analysis is the ability to identify the primitive functions and distributions of the economic models that are employed to describe...
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The perils of peer effects
Angrist, Joshua D. - In: Labour Economics 30 (2014) C, pp. 98-108
Individual outcomes are highly correlated with group average outcomes, a fact often interpreted as a causal peer effect. Without covariates, however, outcome-on-outcome peer effects are vacuous, either unity or, if the average is defined as a leave-out mean, determined by a generic intraclass...
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Replication to assess statistical adequacy
Owen, P. Dorian - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 12 (2018) 2018-60, pp. 1-16
"Statistical adequacy" is an important prerequisite for securing reliable inference in empirical modelling. This paper argues for more emphasis on replication that specifically assesses whether the results reported in empirical studies are based on statistically adequate models, i.e., models...
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On the identification of the effect of education on health: A comment on Fonseca et al. (2020)
Albarran, Pedro; Hidalgo-Hidalgo, Marisa; … - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 13 (2022) 4, pp. 649-661
In this note we revisit the paper by Fonseca et al. (Series 11: 83-103, 2020) who find that education has a positive … effect on health. They use several compulsory schooling reforms as instruments for education. Our objective is to replicate …
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On the identification of the effect of education on health : a comment on Fonseca et al. (2020)
Albarran, Pedro; Hidalgo-Hidalgo, Marisa; … - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 13 (2022) 4, pp. 649-661
In this note we revisit the paper by Fonseca et al. (Series 11: 83-103, 2020) who find that education has a positive … effect on health. They use several compulsory schooling reforms as instruments for education. Our objective is to replicate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013459956
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The payoff to school selectivity: An application of Dale and Krueger’s method to MBA programs
Chen, Weiwei; Grove, Wayne A.; Hussey, Andrew - In: Economics Letters 116 (2012) 2, pp. 247-249
Many studies find a notable return to college quality. Dale and Krueger (2002, 2011) only do until they address selection bias concerns by proxying for ambition and by matching students with similar admission outcomes but different matriculation decisions. Although we employ similar...
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When the cat is near, the mice won't play: The effect of external examiners in Italian schools
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - In: Journal of Public Economics 104 (2013) C, pp. 65-77
We use a natural experiment to show that the presence of an external examiner has both a direct and an indirect negative effect on the performance of monitored classes in standardised educational tests. The direct effect is the difference in the test performance between classes of the same...
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Individual heterogeneity in the returns to schooling: instrumental variables quantile regression using twins data
Arias, Omar; Sosa-Escudero, Walter; Hallock, Kevin F. - In: Empirical Economics 26 (2001) 1, pp. 7-40
Considerable effort has been exercised in estimating mean returns to education while carefully considering biases … "mean" return to education across the population with mixed results. We use an instrumental variables estimator for quantile … regression on a sample of twins to estimate an entire family of returns to education at different quantiles of the conditional …
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