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College expansion and the marginal returns to education : evidence from Russia

Belskaya, Olga; Sabirianova Peter, Klara; Posso, Christian - 2014

This paper evaluates whether the expansion of higher education is economically worthwhile based on a recent surge in … policies targeting the expansion of higher education. …

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Family shocks and academic achievement

Hull, Marie - 2015

Disruptions in family life can take many forms, but all have the potential to impact student learning. With school administrative data matched to birth records, I estimate the effect of unexpected changes in the home environment, or family shocks, on achievement. Identification comes from...

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Wage Effects of On-the-Job Training : A Meta-Analysis

Haelermans, Carla - 2011

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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Do Literacy and Numeracy Pay Off? On the Relationship between Basic Skills and Earnings

Antoni, Manfred - 2012

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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Do teachers' college majors affect students' academic achievement in the sciences? : a cross-subfields analysis with student-teacher fixed effects

Inoue, Atsushi; Tanaka, Ryūichi - 2022

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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A Mixture Model of Errors in Twin Education Reports

Adams, Christopher - 2016

's education levels. To account for this, Ashenfelter and Rouse (1998) provided two reports of each twin's education level. One is … (2016)), to show this may be enough information to identify the underlying true education level without requiring additive … measurement errors. The estimated returns to education are shown to be either the same or below the IV estimates presented in …

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Beyond the Average : Peer Heterogeneity and Intergenerational Transmission of Education

Chakraborty, Tanika - 2014

of peer effect we restrict to no-child-adult-peers who completed their education much before the children in our sample …

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Parental involvement and education outcomes of their children

Kantova, Klara - 2022

relationship between parental involvement and education outcomes of children. My research is the first which examines the effect of …. The education outcome is represented by a binary variable denoting whether the respondent completed high school or not …

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Family disadvantage, gender and the returns to genetic human capital

Ronda, Victor; Agerbo, Esben; Bleses, Dorthe; … - 2020

This paper relies on a large-scale sample of genotyped individuals linked with detailed register data in Denmark to investigate the context-dependence of genetic influences on human capital formation. We show that the returns to genetic endowments, measured by a polygenic score for educational...

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Inequalities in educational outcomes : how important is the family?

Bredtmann, Julia; Smith, Nina - 2016

In this paper, we investigate sibling correlations in educational outcomes, which serve as a broad measure of the importance of family and community background. Making use of rich longitudinal survey and register data for Denmark, our main aim is to identify the parental background...

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