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Are all homeowners willing to pay for better schools? : evidence from a finite mixture model approach

Hwang, Jee W.; Kuang, Chun; Bin, Okmyung - In: The journal of real estate finance and economics 58 (2019) 4, pp. 638-655

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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 … secondary school choice (between ages 10-12) and later when they self-report on their intentions with regard to their further … significant effects of attending a high-quality school, we cannot rule out that the estimates are not in fact driven by selection …

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Development accounting using PIAAC data

Hidalgo-Cabrillana, Ana; Kuehn, Zoë; Lopez-Mayan, Cristina - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 8 (2017) 4, pp. 373-399

We carry out a classical development accounting exercise using data from the “Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies” (PIAAC). PIAAC data, available for 30 upper-middle and high-income countries and nationally representative for the working-age population, allow us...

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What you do in high school matters : high school GPA, educational attainment, and labor market earnings as a young adult

French, Michael T.; Homer, Jenny F.; Popovici, Ioana; … - In: Eastern economic journal 41 (2015) 3, pp. 370-386

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Parental and school responses to student performance : evidence from school entry rules

Fredriksson, Peter; Öckert, Björn; Tilley, J. Lucas - 2024

We examine whether parental and school investments reinforce or compensate for student performance. Our analysis … exploits school-starting-age rules in 34 countries, capturing achievement variation that arises because younger children … school investments are substitutes. …

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Do school resources increase school quality?

Altinok, Nadir - In: Brussels economic review 51 (2008) 4, pp. 435-458

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Creativity, education or what? : on the measurement of regional human capital

Bode, Eckhardt; Pérez-Villar, Lucia - 2014

This paper substantiates the debate following Richard Florida’s suggestion to measure regional human capital by creative occupations rather than education. Consistent with Florida’s notion of creativity, it suggests a microfoundation that relates creativity to workers’ cognitive and...

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Effects of childhood peers on personality skills

Feng, Shuaizhang; Kim, Jun Hyung; Yang, Zhe - 2021

understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random …

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The creativity premium

Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2021

Success in life increasingly depends on key skills that allow people to thrive in education, the labor market, and their interactions with others. In this paper, we emphasize creativity as a key skill that is essential to open-ended problem solving and resistant to automation. We use rich...

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Effects of childhood peers on personality skills

Feng, Shuaizhang; Kim, Jun Hyung; Yang, Zhe - 2021

understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012704643