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Cumulative instructional time and student achievement

Mandel, Philipp; Süssmuth, Bernd; Sunder, Marco - In: Education economics 27 (2019) 1, pp. 20-34

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Unbundling returns to degrees and skills : evidence from postsecondary education in Colombia

Busso, Matias; Muñoz, Juan Sebastián; Montaño, Sebastián - 2020

This paper shows that returns to education are not enough to capture all the returns to human capital. Using longitudinal data of all college graduates in Colombia, we estimate labor market returns to postsecondary degrees and to various skillsincluding literacy, numeracy, foreign language,...

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Contribution of high school heterogeneity to the wage variation of young workers

Boza, István; Horn, Dániel - 2023 - Revised January 2024

secondary school they attended, and to disentangle the (descriptive) channels contributing to these differences. The analysis is … schooling (and students' school standardized mathematics test scores) and wage outcomes at their early career can be observed …-25 (and already working) is generated at the school level. This also implies that the correlation between the wages of any two …

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Teacher value-added and the test score gender gap

García-Echalar, Andrés; Poblete, Sebastián; Rau, Tomás - 2024

This paper assesses the effect of teachers on the gender gap in student test scores. It combines different empirical strategies from the value-added and labor economics literature to estimate teacher value-added and its contribution to the math and reading gender gaps. We use rich administrative...

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The earnings of immigrants and the quality adjustment of immigrant human capital

Sharaf, Mesbah - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-18

The quality dimension of immigrant human capital has received little attention in the economic assimilation literature. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how human capital acquired in different source countries may be adjusted according to its quality in the Canadian labor market....

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Better off on their own? : how peer effects determine international patterns of the mathematics gender achievement gap

Dannemann, Bernhard C. - 2020 - This Version: November 2020

This paper applies recent spatial regression techniques in peer effects estimation to a sample of 33 countries in the … production function setting and controlling for the mediating influences of student-, parent-, teacher-, and school-level factors …

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Peer effects in secondary education : evidence from the 2015 trends in mathematics and science study based on homophily

Dannemann, Bernhard C. - 2020 - This Version: January 2020

estimation of education production functions. In this paper, based on the sociological concept of homophily, I introduce social … network matrices that correspond to a weighting scheme for peers in the same class at school. Using spatial regression …

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Improving educational outcomes : analyses of intervention and public opinion

Wedel, Katharina - 2024

Katharina Wedel prepared this study while she was working at the Center for the Economics of Education at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in September 2023 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at LMU Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that...

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Student scores in public and private schools : evidence from PISA 2009

Mahuteau, Stéphane; Mavromaras, Kostas G. - 2014

and private schooling on student scores in Australia. We control for observable and unobservable influences, at school and …

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Ability distribution and dynamics of wage inequality : unintended consequences of human capital accumulation

Borissov, Kirill; Minabutdinov, Aleksey; Popov, Roman - 2024

This study investigates the dynamics of between-group and within-group wage inequality in a model with heterogeneous learning abilities putting a key emphasis on the shape of the ability distribution. In our model, intergenerational human capital externalities incentivize individuals to invest...

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