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Tertiary education for all and wage inequality : policy insights from quantile regression
Andini, Corrado - 2017
policy promoting the equalization of education levels among the individuals of a society – pushing everybody towards tertiary … education – is a good strategy to fight wage inequality. Academics are more pessimistic. This article stresses that a policy of … "tertiary education for all" does not necessarily reduce the overall level of wage inequality. It may reduce wage inequality due …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011758432
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Average gaps and Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions : a cautionary tale about regression estimates of racial differences in labor market outcomes
Słoczyński, Tymon - 2018
In this paper I demonstrate, both theoretically and empirically, that the interpretation of regression estimates of between-group differences in economic outcomes depends on the relative sizes of subpopulations under study. When the disadvantaged group is small, regression estimates are similar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011958928
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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 … Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education. Chapter 2 … sheds light on the interaction of two inputs into the education production function: instruction time and teacher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014490033
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The effects of ethnomathematics education on student outcomes : the JADENKÄ program in the Ngäbe-Buglé Comarca, Panama
Näslund-Hadley, Emma; Hernández-Agramonte, Juan Manuel; … - 2022
In this article we evaluate the effectiveness of ethnomathematics education among indigenous children: the JADENKÄ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014496319
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The education-health gradient : revisiting the role of socio-emotional skills
Gensowski, Miriam; Gørtz, Mette - 2023
Is the education-health gradient inflated because both education and health are associated with unobserved socio …-fixed effects to address that much of the observed education-health gradient reflects associations rather than causal relationships …. There are education-health gradients even within sibling pairs; personality facets reduce these gradients by 30% or more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014311689
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The education-health gradient : revisiting the role of socio-emotional skills
Gensowski, Miriam; Gørtz, Mette - 2023
Is the education-health gradient inflated because both education and health are associated with unobserved socio …-fixed effects to address that much of the observed education-health gradient reflects associations rather than causal relationships …. There are education-health gradients even within sibling pairs; personality facets reduce these gradients by 30% or more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014313664
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Returns to postgraduate education in Portugal : holding on to a higher ground?
Almeida, André; Figueiredo, Hugo; Cerejeira, João; … - 2017
In this paper we use a large official employer-employee dataset, which includes almost the whole universe of business firms, to document and decompose the rising graduates postgraduates' wage differentials in Portugal. Using a non-parametric matching exercise, we pay particular attention to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111543
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Returns to postgraduate education in Portugal : holding on to a higher ground?
Almeida, Andre; Figueiredo, Hugo; Cerejeira, João; … - 2017
In this paper we use a large official employer-employee dataset, which includes almost the whole universe of business firms, to document and decompose the rising graduates postgraduates' wage differentials in Portugal. Using a non-parametric matching exercise, we pay particular attention to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636681
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The Impact of Later Tracking on Mortality by Parental Income in Finland
Ravesteijn, Bastian; van Kippersluis, Hans; Avendano, … - 2017
We investigate whether later educational tracking reduced the intergenerational persistence of socioeconomic disparities in mortality in Finland,where the tracking age was raised from 11 to 16 in the 1970s. We use a difference-in-differences approach that exploits the gradual rollout of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011662528
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Does self-perceptions and income inequality match? The case of subjective social status
Poppitz, Philipp - 2016
-material factors. Besides income and wealth, other dimensions of inequality including education, occupational prestige, parental … health and the education system, which also moderates the relevance of wealth on subjective social status. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522253