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education by 5-year age intervals and by sex for a broad panel. We use the Gini index of education as a measure of the … country and for each age group. This approach can significantly improve the measurement of inequality in education by … producing estimates of the Gini Index of Education more realistic and reliable especially when it comes to international …
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Using a twin research design that exploits exogenous gender variation in dizygotic twins, this paper credibly identifies the effect of sibling sex composition on schooling, earnings, health, and labor supply. Women born with a male co-twin have higher earnings, schooling, labor force...
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of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps between children from different socio-economic backgrounds, show … acquisition and investment in human capital. The models account for different channels underlying unequal education and highlight … summarize early evidence on the impact of the pandemic on children's education and on possible long-run repercussions for …
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rates and completed years of schooling. Nevertheless, in many countries substantial education gaps persist between rich and …
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A meta-analysis is used to study the average wage effects of on-the-job training. This study shows that the average reported wage effect of on-the-job training, corrected for publication bias, is 2.6 per cent per course. The analyses reveal a substantial heterogeneity between training courses,...
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We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within-student variation across subfields in natural science (i.e., physics, chemistry, biology, and Earth science). Using middle-school students' data from the Trends in International Mathematics...
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Is there a reward for basic skills in the German labor market? To answer this question, we examine the relationship between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey, augmented by test scores on basic cognitive skills as well as...
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education. While men with low skills out-earn their higher-skilled counterparts when they are very young, their earnings are …
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This study estimates the lifetime effects of lost instructional time in the classroom on labor market performance. For identification, I use historical shifts in the school year schedule in Germany, which substantially shortened the duration of the affected school years with no adjustments in...
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used by the Ministry of Education in 2021 to establish a “stoplight” system for in-person instruction. Using administrative … younger children in initial and primary education. The results are robust to specification choice, multiple hypothesis …
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