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Like brother, like sister? : the importance of family background for cognitive and non-cognitive skills ; conference paper

Anger, Silke; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2013

intergenerational correlations are only able to capture parts of the influence of the family on children s cognitive and non …-cognitive skills. This result is in line with findings in the literature on educational and income mobility. …

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Do wage expectations influence the decision to enroll in nursing college? : conference paper

Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop - 2014 - Preliminary draft (v5feb2014)

Given a severe nurse shortage in Switzerland, this paper investigates Swiss students choice for nursing college … suggests a role for policies that increase returns from studying nursing to attract students to nursing. In addition, the …

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The impact of teacher skills on student performance across countries

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Piopiunik, Marc; Wiederhold, Simon - 2014 - Preliminary version

Student performance differs greatly across countries, but little is known about the role of teacher quality in explaining these differences. New international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow for the first time to quantify teacher skills in numeracy and literacy, providing...

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Student assessment and grade retention : evidence from a natural experiment ; conference paper

Kimura, Marlies; Ochsen, Carsten - 2014

whether parents or teachers assess students potential educational performance more adequately. Educational attainment is …. The reform replaced parents choice about their children s secondary school type by a binding teacher recommendation. Our … capture that with free parental choice, overambitious parents tend to select too demanding tracks for their children. …

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The effect of early childhood language training programs on the contemporary formation of grammar skills : conference paper

Kamhöfer, Daniel A. - 2014 - Preliminary

While there is a big literature on the benefits of pre-school education, only little is known why kindergarten attendance improves later-life outcomes. This is partly because most studies analyze the effect of complete 2 years pre-school programs. In order to shed light into the black box of...

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Qualifikation, Weiterbildung und Arbeitsmarkterfolg

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (ed.); Pohlmeier, Winfried (contributor) - 1998 - 1. Aufl.

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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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Bildungsindikatoren im internationalen Vergleich : Bestandsaufnahme und kritische Würdigung ; Forschungsbericht ; mit Beiträgen von Christina Anger, Bernd Fitzenberger, Michael Geb...

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Anger, Christina; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2015

Das Projekt erarbeitete eine Bestandsaufnahme und kritische Diskussion gängiger Bildungsindikatoren im internationalen Vergleich aus interdisziplinärer und bildungsökonomischer Sicht. Im Fokus standen OECD-Indikatoren zu Bildungsabschlüssen, zu Schüler- und Erwachsenenkompetenzen (PISA,...

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Education, skills, and technical change : implications for future US GDP growth

Hulten, Charles R. - Education, Skills, and Technical Change: Implications … - 2019

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Human capital externalities vs. substitution effects as determinants of regional wages : evidence from German micro data ; conference paper

Thönnessen, Rasmus - 2014

This article reconsiders the empirical evidence on regional human capital externalities using longitudal survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). It complements the empirical literature on the role of human capital for explaining regional wage differences. Based on the framework...

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