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Much ado about nothing? : school curriculum reforms and students' educational trajectories

Strazzeri, Maurizio; Oggenfuss, Chantal; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022

We estimate the impact of a large curriculum reform in Switzerland that substantially increased the share of foreign language classes in compulsory school on students' subsequent educational choices in upper secondary school. Using administrative student register data and exploiting the...

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Private tutoring and academic achievement in a selective education system

Zumbuehl, Maria; Hof, Stefanie; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022

Decisions about admission to selective schools usually rely on performance measures. To reach a required achievement threshold students may make use of additional resources, such as private tutoring. We investigate how the use of private tutoring relates to the transition probability to an...

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The knowledge production of "R and "D"

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius; Thorwarth, Susanne - In: Economics letters 105 (2009) 1, pp. 141-143

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The knowledge production of 'R' and 'D'

Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor); Kraft, Kornelius (contributor) - 2008

or output of a knowledge production function. We suggest that the productivity of research in patent production functions … to patentable knowledge, and development happens after the initial research phase that may have led to a patent. Instead … of using data on R&D, we separate the knowledge creating process into 'R' and 'D'. This data stems from R&D surveys of …

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The Knowledge Production of 'R' and 'D'

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius; Thorwarth, Suzanne - 2013

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The Determinants of Participation in a Social Program: Evidence from a Prototypical Job Training Program

Heckman, James J.; Smith, Jeffrey A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper decomposes the participation process of a prototypical program into eligibility, awareness, application, acceptance and enrollment. With this decomposition, we determine the sources of unequal participation for different groups, and demonstrate that variables often have very different...

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Are Student Exchange Programs Worth It?

Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

The number of university students participating in exchange programs has risen sharply over the last decade, but a survey of Swiss university graduates (class of 1999 and 2001) shows that participation in student exchange programs significantly prolongs the period of time spent studying at...

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The Technology of Skill Formation

Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper develops a model of skill formation that explains a variety of findings established in the child development and child intervention literatures. At its core is a technology that is stage-specific and that features self productivity, dynamic complementarity and skill multipliers....

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The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits

Borghans, Lex; Duckworth, Angela Lee; Heckman, James J.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper explores the interface between personality psychology and economics. We examine the predictive power of personality and the stability of personality traits over the life cycle. We develop simple analytical frameworks for interpreting the evidence in personality psychology and suggest...

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Why Some Firms Train Apprentices and Many Others Do Not

Wolter, Stefan C.; Muehlemann, Samuel; Schweri, Juerg - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

The latest study investigating the cost-benefit ratio of apprenticeship training for Swiss companies has shown that most apprentices offset the cost of their training during their apprenticeship on the basis of the productive contribution of the work they perform. Given this outcome, it is worth...

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