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skill level of all low-skilled workers towards the medium level. This paper evaluates the effects of program participation …
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skill level of all low-skilled workers towards the medium level. This paper evaluates the effects of program participation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005651871
The 1973 Raising of the School Leaving Age in England and Wales has been used to identify returns to years' schooling …. However, the reform affected the proportion with qualifications, as well as schooling length. To shed light on whether the … returns reflect extra schooling or qualifications, we exploit another institutional rule - the Easter Leaving Rule - to obtain …
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Estimating the rate of return to a university degree has always been difficult due to the problem of omitted variable biases. Benefiting from a special feature of the University Admission system in China, which has clear cutoffs for university entry, combined with a unique data set with...
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Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade, we analyse the effect of a German education reform that increased weekly instruction hours by two hours (6.5 percent) overalmost five years. In the additional time, students are...
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The 1973 Raising of the School Leaving Age in England and Wales has been used to identify returns to years' schooling …. However, the reform affected the proportion with qualifications, as well as schooling length. To shed light on whether the … returns reflect extra schooling or qualifications, we exploit another institutional rule - the Easter Leaving Rule - to obtain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009232568
The 1973 Raising of the School Leaving Age in England and Wales has been used to identify returns to years' schooling …. However, the reform affected the proportion with qualifications, as well as schooling length. To shed light on whether the … returns reflect extra schooling or qualifications, we exploit another institutional rule - the Easter Leaving Rule - to obtain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129083
Despite great focus on and public investment in STEM education, little causal evidence connects quantitative coursework to students' economic outcomes. I show that state changes in minimum high school math requirements substantially increase black students' completed math coursework and their...
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This paper investigates two mechanisms through which education may affect cognitive skills in adolescence: the role of instructional quantity and the timing of instruction with respect to age. To identify causal effects, I exploit a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a...
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over teachers' careers, but why it improves is not well understood. I use a human capital production function nesting On-the-Job-Training …
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