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The pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns to voucher-financed training
Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2015
of voucher training on wages, employment, job tasks and on subjective outcomes (in particular, the risk of job loss and …This paper analyzes the returns to training that was co-financed by the German voucher program Bildungsprämie. The … estimation strategy compares outcomes of participants in voucher training with voucher recipients who intended to participate in …
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Long term impacts of class size in compulsory school
Leuven, Edwin; Løkken, Sturla Andreas - 2017
How does class size in compulsory school affect peoples' long run education and earnings? We use maximum class size rules and Norwegian administrative registries allowing us to observe outcomes up to age 48. We do not find any indication of beneficial effects of class size reduction in...
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Education expansion, college choice and labour market success
Braccioli, Federica; Ghinetti, Paolo; Moriconi, Simone; … - 2022
We apply the unordered monotonicity setting of Heckman and Pinto (2018) to estimate the distribution of response types and the counterfactual outcomes associated with the choice of a STEM or non-STEM college. Instrumental variation is induced by the proximity to universities offering STEM and/or...
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The long-term effects of long terms compulsory schooling reforms in Sweden
Fischer, Martin; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese; … - 2017
increasing instructional time in Swedish primary school. The reforms extended the annual term length and compulsory schooling by … schooling extension had small (2%) albeit significant effects, which were possibly driven by an increase in post …-compulsory schooling. Both reforms led to increased sorting into occupations with heavy reliance on basic skills. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011779233
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The long-term effects of long terms : compulsory schooling reforms in Sweden
Fischer, Martin; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese; … - 2018
increasing instructional time in Swedish primary school. The reforms extended the annual term length and compulsory schooling by … schooling extension had small (2%) albeit significant effects, which were possibly driven by an increase in post …-compulsory schooling. Both reforms led to increased sorting into occupations with heavy reliance on basic skills. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011868372
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Efficient education policy : a second-order elasticity rule
Richter, Wolfram F. - 2010
Assuming a two-period model with endogenous choices of labour, education, and saving, efficient education policy is characterized for a Ramsey-like scenario in which the government is constrained to use linear instruments. It is shown that education should be effectively subsidized if, and only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003940093
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Education : optimal choice and efficient policy
Richter, Wolfram F.; Schneider, Kerstin - 2015 - This is a fully rev. and extended version
The research on earnings determination is based on the Mincer-Becker assumption that individuals decide on schooling by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010518790
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Mincer equation, power law of learning, and efficient education policy
Richter, Wolfram F. - 2013
schooling decisions by maximizing earnings. Leisure costs of schooling and labour supply are neglected which has some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009721334
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Long-term effects of school size on students' outcomes
Humlum, Maria Knoth; Smith, Nina - 2014
We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the labor market, and earnings at the age of 30. We use rich register data on the entire population of Danish children attending grade 9 in the period 1986-2004. This allows us to...
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Motivation, resources and the organization of the school system
Albornoz, Facundo; Berlinski, Samuel G.; Cabrales, Antonio - 2016
This paper studies a model where student effort and talent interact with parental and teachers' investments, as well as with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for example, that an improvement in parental outside...
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