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Confidence and college applications : evidence from a randomized intervention

Hakimov, Rustamdjan; Schmacker, Renke; Terrier, Camille - 2023

This paper investigates the role played by self-conﬁdence in college applications. Using incentivized experiments, we measure the self-conﬁdence of more than 2,000 students applying to colleges in France. The best female students and students from low socioeconomic status (low-SES)...

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First generation elite : the role of school networks

Cattan, Sarah; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Tominey, Emma - 2023

High school students from non-elite backgrounds are less likely to have peers with elite educated parents than their elite counterparts in Norway. We show this difference in social capital is a key driver of the high intergenerational persistence in elite education. We identify a positive elite...

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The intergenerational elasticity of earnings : exploring the mechanisms

Bolt, Uta; French, Eric; Hentall-MacCuish, Jamie; … - 2021

Using data covering a single cohort’s ﬁrst 55 years of life, we show that most of the intergenerational elasticity of earnings (IGE) is explained by differences in: years of schooling, cognitive skills, investments of parental time and school quality, and family circumstances during...

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First generation elite : the role of school networks

Cattan, Sarah; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Tominey, Emma - 2022

Intergenerational persistence in studying for elite education is high across the world. We study the role that exposure to high school peers from elite educated families (‘elite peers’) plays in driving such a phenomenon in Norway. Using register data on ten cohorts of high school students...

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Child labor and resistance to change

Bellettini, Giorgio; Berti Ceroni, Carlotta; Ottaviano, … - 2003

We study the interactions between technological innovation, investment in human capital and child labor. In our setting … firms decide on innovation, then households decide on education. In equilibrium the presence of inefficient child labor … on child labor are welfare reducing, while a subsidy to innovation is the right tool to eliminate child labor and …

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Migration, cultural diversity and innovation : a European perspective

Bosetti, Valentina; Cattaneo, Cristina; Verdolini, Elena - 2012

This paper analyses the effect of skilled migration on two measures of innovation, patenting and citations of … scientific publications, in a panel of 20 European countries. Skilled migrants positively contribute to the knowledge formation … associated with higher levels of knowledge creation, measured either by the number of patents applied for through the Patent …

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Climate change mitigation strategies in fast-growing countries : the benefits of early action

Tavoni, Massimo; Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo - 2009

investment behaviour is to anticipate the implementation of a climate policy by roughly 10 years. Investing in innovation ahead …. This is especially relevant for China, whose recent and foreseeable trends of investments in innovation are consistent with …

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Education in a marriage market model without commitment

Hyee, Raphaela - 2011

This paper develops a model that combines intra-household bargaining with competition on the marriage market to analyse women's and men's incentives to invest in education. Once married, spouses bargain over their share of total household income. They have the option of unilateral divorce and...

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Do marriage markets influence the divorce hazard?

Hyee, Raphaela - 2011

This paper demonstrates that a woman's propensity to separate from her husband or live-in partner depends positively on male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings power, the more likely a woman is to end her...

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Can higher education policy boost intergenerational mobility? : evidence from an empirical matching model

Britton, Jack; Dias, Mónica Costa; Goll, David - 2023

Higher education policy potentially has an important role in improving intergenerational income mobility. We use rich administrative data to estimate a novel two-sided matching model of sorting into field and institution within higher education. We use it to simulate a wide set of policies aimed...

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