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What is the Private Return to Tertiary Education? New Evidence from 21 OECD Countries

Boarini, Romina; Strauss, Hubert - 2011

This article provides estimates of the private Internal Rates of Return to tertiary education for women and men in 21 OECD countries, for the years between 1991 and 2005. IRR are computed by estimating labour market premia on cross-country comparable individual-level data. Labour market premia...

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Chapter 2. The Production of Human Capital in Developed Countries : Evidence From 196 Randomized Field Experiments

Fryer, R.G. - 2017

Randomized field experiments designed to better understand the production of human capital have increased exponentially over the past several decades. This chapter summarizes what we have learned about various partial derivatives of the human capital production function, what important partial...

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School curricula, educational trajectories, and labor market outcomes

Arold, Benjamin W. - 2022

children and participating in the labor market. Chapter 3 provides evidence that the content of science education standards in …

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Variation of learning intensity in late adolescence and the impact on noncognitive skills

Büttner, Bettina; Thiel, Hendrik; Thomsen, Stephan L. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

Despite the interdependence between cognitive and noncognitive skills, empirical studies have shown a longer period of acquisition in life-time for the latter besides relevance for educational and labor market success. Analyzing returns of investments during different periods of life is...

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Can we grow with our children? : the effects of a comprehensive early childhood development program

Rude, Britta - 2022

I exploit the staggered roll-out of a universal early childhood development program in Chile to assess the impact of a comprehensive approach to early childhood development on outcomes in middle childhood. Using variation across time and municipalities, I study outcomes such as school...

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Middle-run impacts of comprehensive early childhood interventions : evidence from a pioneer program in Chile

Rude, Britta - 2022

pronounced for girls and socioeconomically vulnerable children. Impacts on several other child development outcomes also differ …

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Effects of age at school entry (ASE) on the development of non-cognitive skills : evidence from psychometric data

Mühlenweg, Andrea M.; Blomeyer, Dorothea; Laucht, Manfred - 2011

psychometric measures from a longitudinal cohort study of children in the Rhine-Neckar region in central Germany. In children with … dimensions: These children are more persistent and less often hyperactive. The findings are robust if we control for the … comparing the children at age eight and age eleven, after the children have entered Germany's segregated secondary-school tracks …

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The effect of early childhood language training programs on the contemporary formation of grammar skills : conference paper

Kamhöfer, Daniel A. - 2014 - Preliminary

While there is a big literature on the benefits of pre-school education, only little is known why kindergarten attendance improves later-life outcomes. This is partly because most studies analyze the effect of complete 2 years pre-school programs. In order to shed light into the black box of...

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Understanding the mechanisms through which an influential early childhood program boosted adult outcomes

Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Savelyev, Peter - 2012

A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children …

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Whose Children Gain from Starting School Later? Evidence from Hungary

Hámori, Szilvia - 2011

eight students in Hungary. Instrumental variables estimates of the local average treatment effect suggest that children … impact on low-status children is supported by the robustness checks. The observed patterns are most probably explained by the … better performance of kindergartens, as opposed to schools, in developing the skills of low-status children …

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