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Early skill gap effects on long-run outcomes and parental investments

Celhay, Pablo A.; Gallegos, Sebastián - 2019

This paper examines the effects of skill advantages at age six on different types of parental investments, and long-run outcomes up to age 27. We exploit exogenous variation in skills due to school entry rules, combining 20 years of Chilean administrative records with a regression discontinuity...

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The causal impact of socio-emotional skills training on educational success

Sorrenti, Giuseppe; 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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Changes across cohorts in wage returns to schooling and early work experiences

Ashworth, Jared; Hotz, Vincent Joseph; Maurel, Arnaud; … - 2017

of the returns to education. …

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Skilled or educated? : educational reforms, human capital and earnings

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Castelnovo, Paolo; Checchi, Daniele; … - 2016

We use OECD-PIAAC data to estimate the earnings effects of both years of education and of numerical skills. Our … education has the strongest earnings effect. A one standard deviation increase in years of education raises earnings by almost … 22 percentage points (corresponding to a return to education above 7 percentage points), which compares with a lower …

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The causal effects of adolescent school : bullying victimisation on later life outcomes

Gorman, Emma; Harmon, Colm; Mendolia, Silvia; Staneva, Anita - 2019

We use rich data on a cohort of English adolescents to analyse the long-term effects of experiencing bullying victimisation in junior high school. The data contain self-reports of five types of bullying and their frequency, for three waves of the data, when the pupils were aged 13 to 16 years....

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The causal impact of socio-emotional skills training on educational success

Sorrenti, Giuseppe; 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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012175897

Subjective Completion Beliefs and the Demand for Post-Secondary Education

Kunz, Johannes - 2016

in post-secondary education, students must factor in their completion probability into their decision. We study the role … of this uncertainty in educational choices using students' subjective beliefs about completing a post-secondary education …, which were elicited prior to students' completing secondary education. We relate these subjective completion probabilities …

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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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The labour market effects of the Polish educational reform of 1999

Drucker, Luca Flóra; Horn, Dániel; Jakubowski, Maciej - In: Journal for labour market research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-21

We estimate the effect of the 1999 education reform in Poland on employment and earnings. The 1999 education reform in … Poland replaced the previous 8 years of general and 3/4/5 years of tracked secondary education with 9 years of general and 3 …/3/4 years of tracked upper-secondary education. The reform also introduced new curricula, national examinations, teacher …

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The Effects of Advanced Degrees on the Wage Rates, Hours, Earnings and Job Satisfaction of Women and Men

Altonji, Joseph G.; Humphries, John Eric; Zhong, Ling - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper uses a college-by-graduate degree fixed effects estimator to evaluate the returns to 19 different graduate degrees for men and women. We find substantial variation across degrees, and evidence that OLS overestimates the returns to degrees with high average earnings and underestimates...

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