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immigrants of German descent and foreign origin persons. Education is a key indicator for future economic and social perspectives …
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Is there a reward for basic skills in the German labor market? To answer this question, we examine the relationship between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey, augmented by test scores on basic cognitive skills as well as...
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We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within-student variation across subfields in natural science (i.e., physics, chemistry, biology, and Earth science). Using middle-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics...
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In recent years there has been a plethora of empirical papers by economists concerning the effects of academic rank in school or college on subsequent outcomes of students. We review this recent literature, describing the difficult identification and measurement issues, the assumptions and...
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This paper develops a model that allows for heterogenous contemporaneous peer effects among different types of agents who are endogenously selected into different peer groups. Using our framework, we characterize the reduced-form coefficient in the peer effect literature and show that it is a...
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's education levels. To account for this, Ashenfelter and Rouse (1998) provided two reports of each twin's education level. One is … (2016)), to show this may be enough information to identify the underlying true education level without requiring additive … measurement errors. The estimated returns to education are shown to be either the same or below the IV estimates presented in …
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of peer effect we restrict to no-child-adult-peers who completed their education much before the children in our sample …
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In recent years there has been a plethora of empirical papers by economists concerning the effects of academic rank in school or college on subsequent outcomes of students. We review this recent literature, describing the difficult identification and measurement issues, the assumptions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040930
The work defences the thesis that even ensured equal opportunities to invest in education and to get better life, even …
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education would have recovered quickly, and especially for the scenario in which the crisis persisted for a longer period … (several months), and in this case the solutions should provide equal access to education for all children and young people. We … world, including Romania. On the long term, this action has had, and will continue to have negative effects on education …
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