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The effect of school entrance age on educational outcomes : evidence using multiple cutoff dates and exact date of birth

Attar, Itay; Cohen-Zada, Danny - 2017

Using Israeli data, we estimate the effect of school entrance age (SEA) on student outcomes. Unlike much of the recent literature, our identification strategy strictly satisfies the monotonicity assumption required for interpreting our estimates as the local average treatment effect (LATE), and...

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Human capital, schooling and health returns

Schultz, T. Paul - 2003

A consensus has been forged in the last decade that recent periods of sustained growth in total factor productivity and reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling, particularly in low-income countries. Estimates of the...

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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 …

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Educational (mis)match and skill utilization in Germany : assessing the role of worker and job characteristics

Rohrbach-Schmidt, Daniela; Tiemann, Michael - In: Journal for labour market research 49 (2016) 2, pp. 99-119

)match, i.e., whether a worker’s attained level of education corresponds to the qualificational requirements of his or her job … requirements of their jobs. Furthermore, there are workers perfectly matched with respect to their education who, nevertheless …

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The career prospects of overeducated Americans

Clark, Brian; Joubert, Clément; Maurel, Arnaud - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 6 (2017) 3, pp. 1-29

In this paper we analyze career dynamics for US workers who have more schooling than their peers in the same occupation. We use data from the NLSY79 combined with the CPS to analyze transitions into and out of overeducated employment, together with the corresponding effects on wages....

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School quality and family background in Italy

Brunello, Giorgio; Checchi, Daniele - 2003

We study if the combined significant reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio and increase in parental education observed … is positively correlated with higher educational attainment, but that the overall improvement of parental education has … attainment and returns to education has been particularly significant for individuals born in regions and cohorts with poorer …

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Human capital investments and expectations about career and family

Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2016

This paper studies how individuals believe human capital investments will affect their future career and family life. We conducted a survey of high-ability currently enrolled college students and elicited beliefs about how their choice of college major, and whether to complete their degree at...

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On the size of sheepskin effects : a meta-analysis

Mora, Jhon James; Muro, Juan - 2015

The authors use information gathered from 122 studies on the effects of high school diplomas on wages in different countries worldwide to carry out a meta-analysis that shows high school diplomas have a statistically significant effect on wages of nearly 8 percent. This effect varies whether the...

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Field of study, qualification mismatch, and wages : does sorting matter?

Berlingieri, Francesco; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2014

Graduates from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are usually found to have higher wages and a lower risk of overqualification. However, it is unclear whether we can interpret the effect of STEM subjects on overqualification and wages in a causal way, since individuals...

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Learning and earning : evidence from a randomized evaluation in India

Maitra, Pushkar; Mani, Subha - 2014

This paper presents the treatment effects from participating in a subsidized vocational training program targeted at women residing in low-income households in India. We combine pre-intervention data with two rounds of post-intervention data from a randomized field experiment to quantify the 6-...

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