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Home broadband and human capital formation

Sanchis-Guarner, Rosa; Montalbán, José; Weinhardt, Felix - 2021

This paper estimates the effect of home high-speed internet on national test scores of students at age 14. We combine comprehensive information on the telecom network, administrative student records, house prices and local amenities in England in a fuzzy spatial regression discontinuity design...

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Returns to investment in education : the case of Turkey

Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Psacharopoulos, George; … - 2019

This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Turkey, using the 2017 Household Labor … Force Survey and alternative methodologies. The analysis uses the 1997 education reform of increasing compulsory education … by three years as an instrument. This results in a private rate of return on the order of 16 percent for higher education …

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Returns to investment in education : the case of Turkey

Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Psacharopoulos, George; … - 2019

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Mentoring and schooling decisions : causal evidence

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia - 2020

-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES …

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Crime and human capital in India

Sharma, Smriti; Sunder, Naveen - 2024

It has been demonstrated that violent crime has profound effects on a number of socioeconomic outcomes. But, does day-to-day crime also shape human capital accumulation? We answer this question in the Indian context by combining multiple years of district-level data on the incidence of various...

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The different returns to cognitive ability in the labor and capital markets

Bastani, Spencer; Karlsson, Kristina; Waldenström, Daniel - 2023

education, occupation, savings, inheritance, and parental background. Moreover, ability is significantly positively correlated …

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The different returns to cognitive ability in the labor and capital markets

Bastani, Spencer; Karlsson, Kristina; Waldenström, Daniel - 2023

education, occupation, savings, inheritance, and parental background. Moreover, ability is significantly positively correlated …

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The Effects of Longevity and Distortions on Education and Retirement

Ferreira, Pedro C.; Pessoa, Samuel D. - 2005

allocate optimally their total lifetime between education, working and retirement. They also decide at each moment how much to …. The model incorporates experience-earnings profiles and return to education function that follows evidence from the labor … literature. In this setup increases in longevity raises the investment in education - time in school - and retirement. The model …

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Discipline reform, school culture, and student achievement

Craig, Ashley C.; Martin, David - 2023

Does relaxing strict school discipline improve student achievement, or lead to classroom disorder? We study a 2012 reform in New York City public middle schools that eliminated suspensions for non-violent, disorderly behavior. Math scores of students in more-affected schools rose by 0.05...

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Parental investments and socio-economic gradients in learning across European countries

Carneiro, Pedro; Reis, Hugo; Toppeta, Alessandro - 2024

Generous maternity leave, affordable daycare, extensive social safety nets, excellent universal health care, and high-quality public schools, are all notable features of Nordic countries. There is a widespread belief that such strong public investments in children contribute to a levelled...

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