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The treatment effect of attending a high-quality school and the influence of unobservables : conference paper

Freier, Ronny; Storck, Johanna - 2013

This paper studies the effect of attending a high-quality secondary school on subsequent educational outcomes. The analysis is based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study in which we observe children when they make their secondary school choice (between ages 10-12) and later when...

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Causal effects of educational mismatch in the labor market : conference paper

Kleibrink, Jan - 2013

This paper analyses the causal effects of educational mismatch on wages, individual health and job satisfaction. As educational mismatch is subject to unobserved heterogeneity in all of these fields, different identification strategies are applied to derive causal effects. In the wage...

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Analyzing zero returns to education in Germany : heterogeneous effects and skill formation ; conference paper

Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2013 - This version: August 28, 2013, preliminary

We analyze the causal effect of education on old-age cognitive abilities using German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data … individual reaches in an ultra-short intelligence test. We explain this score, using instrumented education. Instrumental …). Using variations in education policy in the German federal states we are able to instrument education for three groups of …

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Overeducation among immigrants in Sweden : incidence, wage effects and state dependence

Joona, Pernilla Andersson; Gupta, Nabanita Datta; … - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-23

The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied extensively. Using Swedish register data from 2001 - 2008, we extend the immigrant educational mismatch literature by analyzing incidence, wage effects and state dependence in...

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Persistence bias and schooling returns

Andini, Corrado - 2014

A well-established empirical literature suggests that individual wages are persistent. Several theoretical arguments support this empirical finding. Yet, the standard approach to the estimation of schooling returns does not account for this fact. This paper investigates the consequences of...

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Study versus television

Browning, Martin James; Heinesen, Eskil - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 3 (2014), pp. 1-16

student effort) constant. The main parameters governing this difference are the extent to which inputs in the education … on student ability, the student's distaste for effort and the curvature of the education production with respect to …

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The effect of supplemental instruction on academic performance : an encouragement design experiment

Paloyo, Alfredo R.; Rogan, Sally; Siminski, Peter - 2016

While randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are the “gold standard” for impact evaluation, they face numerous practical barriers to implementation. In some circumstances, a randomized-encouragement design (RED) is a viable alternative, but applications are surprisingly rare. We discuss the...

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Increased instruction hours and the widening gap in student performance

Huebener, Mathias; Kuger, Susanne; Marcus, Jan - 2016

, we analyse the effect of a German education reform that increased weekly instruction hours by two hours (6.5 percent …

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The effect of age at school entry on college admission and earnings: a regression-discontinuity approach

Matta, Rafael; Ribas, Rafael Pérez; Sampaio, Breno; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 5 (2016) 9, pp. 1-25

This paper provides evidence of the effect of age at school entry on college admission and earnings. It does so by exploiting a number of features in the application process to one of the major flagship universities in Brazil. By comparing applicants with different ages at school entry depending...

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Educational quality and regional disparity : one application of hierarchical model to Brazilian dataset

Menezes, Tatiane; Soares, Sammara Cavalcanti - 2011

. The objective of this paper is highlighting the importance of quality of education to explain the wide income disparities … education quality and efficiency, this study aims to investigate which factors are the most significant to determine elementary … (SAEB) for 4th grades of elementary education. The estimation method is the hierarchical regression, which, in this work …

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