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The long-run effects of attending an elite school : evidence from the UK
Clark, Damon; Del Bono, Emilia - 2014
This paper estimates the impact of elite school attendance on long-run outcomes including completed education, income …, we find that elite school attendance had large impacts on completed education. For women, we find that elite school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434599
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The long-run effects of attending an elite school : evidence from the UK
Clark, Damon; Del Bono, Emilia - 2014
This paper estimates the impact of elite school attendance on long- run outcomes including completed education, income … formula, we find that elite school attendance had large impacts on completed education. For women, we find that elite school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010241305
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Assortative mating on education : a genetic assessment
Barban, Nicola; De Cao, Elisabetta; Oreffice, Sonia; … - 2019
We investigate assortative mating on education using a sample of couples from the Health and Retirement Study. We … estimate a reduced-form linear matching function, which links wife's education to husband's education and both wife's and … husband's unobservable characteristics. Using OLS we find that an additional year in husband's education is associated with an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099447
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Vulnerable boys : short-term and long-term gender differences in the impacts of adolescent disadvantage
Lei, Ziteng; Lundberg, Shelly - 2020
The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised concerns that the skill development of boys may be more sensitive to family disadvantage than that of girls. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) data we find, as do...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012164784
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Education and entrepreneurial choice : an instrumental variables analysis
Block, Jörn; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: November 2010
Education is argued to be an important driver of the decision to start a business. The measurement of its influence … US. Theeffect of education on the decision to become self-employed is found to be strongly positive,much higher than the … estimated effect in case no instrumental variables are used. That is, thehigher the respondent's level of education, the greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379198
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School performance, score inflation and economic geography
Battistin, Erich; Neri, Lorenzo - 2017
We show that grading standards for primary school exams in England have triggered an inflation of quality indicators in the national performance tables for almost two decades. The cumulative effects have resulted in significant differences in the quality signaled to parents for otherwise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011756120
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School performance, score inflation and economic geography
Battistin, Erich; Neri, Lorenzo - 2017
We show that grading standards for primary school exams in England have triggered an inflation of quality indicators in the national performance tables for almost two decades. The cumulative effects have resulted in significant differences in the quality signaled to parents for otherwise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763856
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Voluntary work and wages
Bruno, Bruna; Fiorillo, Damiano - 2014
The effects of voluntary work on earnings have recently been studied for some developed countries such as Canada, France and Austria. This paper extends this line of research to Italy, using data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) dataset. A double...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527209
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Convergence of the risk for nonparametric IV quantile regression and nonparametric IV regression with full independence
Dunker, Fabian - 2015
In econometrics some nonparametric instrumental regression models and nonparametric demand models with endogeneity lead to nonlinear integral equations with unknown integral kernels. We prove convergence rates of the risk for the iteratively regularized Newton method applied to these problems....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392754
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Replication to assess statistical adequacy
Owen, Dorian - 2017
"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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011724631