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(Em)powered by Science? Estimating the Relative Labor Market Returns to Majoring in Science in High School in India
Roychowdhury, Punarjit - 2021
Despite widespread belief that majoring in science in high school has a greater payoff in the Indian labor market than majoring in business/humanities, there is no hard evidence to substantiate this thought. Here I provide the first evidence of the causal effect of majoring in science on...
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Thailand's education system and skills imbalances : assessment and policy recommendations
Vandeweyer, Marieke; Espinoza, Ricardo; Reznikova, Laura; … - 2020
capacity of Thailand’s education and training system to develop relevant skills from the pre-primary to higher education level … relevant teacher training, and sustained competitiveness of higher education institutions as key areas for improvement. It also … points to large skills shortages in the education, and health and social work sectors, and prevalent qualification and field …
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Perceived and actual option values of college enrollment
Gong, Yifan; Stinebrickner, Todd R.; Stinebrickner, Ralph - 2020
An important feature of post-secondary schooling is the experimentation that accompanies sequential decision-making. Specifically, by entering college, a student gains the option to decide at a future time whether it is optimal to remain in college or to drop out, after resolving uncertainty...
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Subjective completion beliefs and the demand for post-secondary education
Kunz, Johannes; Staub, Kevin E. - 2016
The outcome of pursuing an upper or post-secondary education degree is uncertain. A student might not complete a chosen … whether to invest in post-secondary education, students must factor their probability of completing the degree into their … decision. We study the role of this uncertainty in education choices using representative survey data from Germany. Students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572153
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Wage losses due to overqualification : the role of formal degrees and occupational skills
Kracke, Nancy; Reichelt, Malte; Vicari, Basha - 2017
Wage penalties in overqualified employment are well documented, but little is known regarding the underlying mechanisms. We test two explanations, namely, formal overqualification and a mismatch of occupational skills. By using the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) survey that is linked to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630745
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Subjective completion beliefs and the demand for post-secondary education
Kunz, Johannes; Staub, Kevin E. - 2016
The outcome of pursuing an upper or post-secondary education degree is uncertain. A student might not complete a chosen … whether to invest in post-secondary education, students must factor their probability of completing the degree into their … decision. We study the role of this uncertainty in education choices using representative survey data from Germany. Students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580845
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Labor market returns to college education with vocational qualifications
Rzepka, Sylvi - 2018
In this paper, I assess labor market returns of a substantial skill upgrade: college enrollment of the vocationally trained, non-traditional students who do not have the formal entry requirement. Using propensity-scoreadjusted regressions and the National Educational Panel Study, I find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011876137
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The causal impact of socio-emotional skills training on educational success
Sorrenti, Guiseppe; Zölitz, Ulf; Ribeaud, Denis; … - 2020
We study the long-term effects of a randomized intervention targeting children's socio-emotional skills. The classroom-based intervention for primary school children has positive impacts that persist for over a decade. Treated children become more likely to complete academic high school and...
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Compulsory schooling and returns to education : a re-examination
Van Huellen, Sophie; Qin, Duo - In: Econometrics : open access journal 7 (2019) 3/36, pp. 1-20
This paper re-examines the instrumental variable (IV) approach to estimating returns to education by use of compulsory … overcome these flaws by carefully distinguishing returns to education from the treatment effect of CSL. We find relatively …
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Changes across cohorts in wage returns to schooling and early work experiences
Ashworth, Jared; Hotz, Vincent Joseph; Maurel, Arnaud; … - 2018
of the returns to education …
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