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The impact of teachers’ wages on students’ performance in the presence of heterogeneity and endogeneity. Evidence from Brazil.

Maresa, SPRIETSMA; Fabio, WALTENBERG - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2005

In this paper we estimate the effect of teachers’ wages on students’ achievement in a developing country. We use test scores of pupils enrolled in the 8th grade of primary school, surveyed in 2001 in Brazil. We regress individual student test scores on gross monthly teacher wages allowing...

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Finite Sample Inference Methods for Simultaneous Equations and Models with Unobserved and Generated Regressors

Dufour, Jean-Marie; Jasiak, Joanna - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2000

We propose finite sample tests and confidence sets for models with unobserved and generated regressors as well as various models estimated by instrumental variables methods. The validity of the procedures is unaffected by the presence of identification problems or weak instruments, so no...

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Genetic Markers as Instrumental Variables: An Application to Child Fat Mass and Academic Achievement

S, von Hinke Kessler Scholder - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2009

The use of genetic markers as instrumental variables (IV) is receiving increasing attention from economists. This paper examines the conditions that need to be met for genetic variants to be used as instruments. We combine the IV literature with that from genetic epidemiology, with an...

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Individual heterogeneity in the returns to schooling: instrumental variables quantile regression using twins data

Arias, Omar; Sosa-Escudero, Walter; Hallock, Kevin F. - In: Empirical Economics 26 (2001) 1, pp. 7-40

Considerable effort has been exercised in estimating mean returns to education while carefully considering biases … "mean" return to education across the population with mixed results. We use an instrumental variables estimator for quantile … regression on a sample of twins to estimate an entire family of returns to education at different quantiles of the conditional …

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Community Colleges and Upward Mobility

Mountjoy, Jack - 2019

education and earnings records, I disentangle the net impacts of 2-year college access into two competing causal margins …

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Wanna Get Away? RD Identification Away from the Cutoff

Angrist, Joshua; Rokkanen, Miikka - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

In the canonical regression discontinuity (RD) design for applicants who face an award or admissions cutoff, causal effects are nonparametrically identified for those near the cutoff. The impact of treatment on inframarginal applicants is also of interest, but identification of such effects...

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Heterogeneous Returns to Education Over Wage Distribution: Who Prots the Most?

Balestra, Simone; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2013

This study presents evidence of heterogeneous returns to education over the wage distribution. The authors use … instrumental variable quantile regression and data from the Swiss Labor Force Survey to identify the causal link between education … results suggest that higher-ability individuals have higher wages, but the slope of their wage-education prole is atter than …

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Formando microempresarias: los servicios de desarrollo de negocio para reforzar el impacto de los microcréditos

Artiñano, Olga Biosca - Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad … - 2014

Recent microfinance crises have put into question the effectiveness of microfinance for poverty alleviation. In this context, non-financial services supplied by microfinance institutions re-emerge as a mechanism to strengthen microfinance’s effect on wellbeing through human capital formation....

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Does High School Homework Increase Academic Achievement?

Kalenkoski, Charlene Marie; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2014

Although previous research has shown that homework improves students' academic achievement, the majority of these studies use data on students' homework time from retrospective questionnaires, which are less accurate than time-diary data. However, most time-diary data sets do not contain outcome...

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The Effects of Occupational Knowledge: Job Information Centers, Educational Choices, and Labor Market Outcomes

Saniter, Nils; Siedler, Thomas - 2014

This study examines the causal link between individuals' occupational knowledge, educational choices, and labor market outcomes. We proxy occupational knowledge with mandatory visits to job information centers (JICs) in Germany while still attending school. Exogenous variation in the location...

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