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Parental education, grade attainment and earnings expectations among university students
Delaney, Liam; Harmon, Colm; Redmond, Cathy - 2011
income for example), many of the pathways through which these outcomes are transmitted are not as well understood. We address … and unique dataset of university students. While large socio-economic differences in academic performance exist at the … differences across socio-economic backgrounds in university grade attainment for female students is explained by intermediating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009238540
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The impact of parental earnings and education on the schooling of children
Chevalier, Arnaud; Harmon, Colm; O'Sullivan, Vincent; … - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009259468
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Micro-level determinants of lecture attendance and additional study-hours
Ryan, Martin; Delaney, Liam; Harmon, Colm - 2010
to a greater extent than they determine additional study. Finally, we show that family income and financial transfers … (from both parents and the state) do not determine any educational input. This study suggests that non-cognitive abilities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008901599
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Micro-level determinants of lecture attendance and additional study-hours
Ryan, Martin; Delaney, Liam; Harmon, Colm - 2010
to a greater extent than they determine additional study. Finally, we show that family income and financial transfers … (from both parents and the state) do not determine any educational input. This study suggests that non-cognitive abilities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008811226
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The role of noncognitive traits in undergraduate study behaviours
Delaney, Liam; Harmon, Colm; Ryan, Martin - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009412951
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The causal effects of adolescent school : bullying victimisation on later life outcomes
Gorman, Emma; Harmon, Colm; Mendolia, Silvia; Staneva, Anita - 2019
We use rich data on a cohort of English adolescents to analyse the long-term effects of experiencing bullying victimisation in junior high school. The data contain self-reports of five types of bullying and their frequency, for three waves of the data, when the pupils were aged 13 to 16 years....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993979
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Education. earning and skills : a multi-country comparison
Denny, Kevin (contributor); Harmon, Colm (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002023948
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Functional literacy, educational attainment and earnings : a multi-country comparison.
Denny, Kevin; Harmon, Colm; Hogan, Vincent - 2003
In this paper a rich and innovative dataset, the International Adult Literacy Survey, is used to examine the impact of functional literacy on earnings. We show that the estimated return to formal education is sensitive to the inclusion of literacy: excluding it biases the return to education in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008760236
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Economic returns to education : what we know, what we don't know, and where we are going ; some brief pointers
Harmon, Colm - 2011
The estimation of the economic return to education has perhaps been one of the predominant areas of analysis in applied economics for over 50 years. In this short note we consider some of the recent directions taken by the literature, and also some of the blockages faced by both science and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009383577
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Selective schooling, school quality, and labour market returns
Harmon, Colm; Walker, Ian - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000966346