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Education policy-makers and practitioners want to know which policies and practices can best achieve their goals. But …
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Education policy-makers and practitioners want to know which policies and practices can best achieve their goals. But …
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Education policy-makers and practitioners want to know which policies and practices can best achieve their goals. But …
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Education policy-makers and practitioners want to know which policies and practices can best achieve their goals. But …
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Abstract Conventional wisdom dictates that the more we know about a problem domain the easier it is to predict the effects of policies in that domain. Strangely, this wisdom is not sanctioned by formal analysis, when the notions of “knowledge” and “policy” are given concrete definitions...
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This study investigates the causal effects of education on individuals' transitions between employment and unemployment …, with particular focus on the extent to which education improves re-employment outcomes among unemployed workers. Given that … positive correlations between education and labour force transitions are likely to be confounded by the endogeneity of …
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We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in England and … Continental Europe, implemented between 1936 and 1975. We assess the causal effect of education on the number of biological … children and the incidence of childlessness. We find surprising results for Continental Europe: the additional education …
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studies find that highly educated workers tend to adopt new technologies faster than those with less education. Such positive … correlations between the level of education and the rate of technology adoption, however, do not necessarily reflect the true … causal effect of education on technology adoption. Relying on data from the Workplace and Employee Survey, this study …
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This study assesses the effects of education on both job search intensity and re-employment success for unemployed … workers. Given that the positive correlation between education and job search intensity or re-employment success is likely to … be confounded by the endogeneity of education, we make use of data on compulsory schooling laws to create instrumental …
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