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Klauser, Roman; Tamm, Marcus - 2023

potential heterogeneity of returns based on panel data from Germany that provide a unique measure for individuals' adoption of …

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Chapter 73. Investment in EducationInputs and Incentives

Behrman, Jere R. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 5, (pp. 4883-4975). 2010

From the point of view of economic development, education is the acquisition of knowledge and skills through …. The proximate determinants of education are experiences or inputs into knowledge and skills production functions. Within a …

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How skills and parental valuation of education influence human capital acquisition and early labor market return to human capital in Canada

Lehrer, Steven F. - 2019

consider how parental valuation of education, cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills influence endogenous schooling … decisions and subsequent labour market outcomes in Canada. We find the effect of cognitive skills on adult incomes arises by … increasing the likelihood of obtaining further education. Further, we find that both non-cognitive skills and parental valuation …

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More investment - less returns? : changing returns to education in Italy across three decades

Ballarino, Gabriele; Scherer, Stefani - In: Stato e mercato 99 (2013) 3, pp. 359-388

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Why standard measures of human capital are misleading

Hanushek, Eric Alan - In: Han gug gae bal yeon gu 37 (2015) 2, pp. 23-40

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Labor market returns and the evolution of cognitive skills : theory and evidence

Hermo, Santiago; Päällysaho, Miika; Seim, David; … - 2021

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Labor market returns and the evolution of cognitive skills : theory and evidence

Seim, David; Hermo, Santiago; Päällysaho, Miika; … - 2021

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A big fish in a small pond : ability rank and human capital investment

Elsner, Benjamin; Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2015

We study the impact of a student's ordinal rank in a high school cohort on educational attainment several years later. To identify a causal effect, we compare multiple cohorts within the same school, exploiting idiosyncratic variation in cohort composition. We find that a student's ordinal rank...

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High school human capital portfolio and college outcomes

Tchuente, Guy - 2015

skills in high school. However, I find a U-shaped relationship between the diversification of high school courses a student …

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Family shocks and academic achievement

Hull, Marie - 2015

Disruptions in family life can take many forms, but all have the potential to impact student learning. With school administrative data matched to birth records, I estimate the effect of unexpected changes in the home environment, or family shocks, on achievement. Identification comes from...

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