The development of English-language skills, a near necessity in today’s global economy, is heavily influenced by historical national decisions about whether to subtitle or dub TV content. While prior studies of language acquisition have focused on schools, we show the overwhelming influence of...

The development of English-language skills, a near necessity in today’s global economy, is heavily influenced by historical national decisions about whether to subtitle or dub TV content. While prior studies of language acquisition have focused on schools, we show the overwhelming influence of...

The changing pattern of quality in China’s rural schools across time and province is extracted from the differential labor market earnings of rural migrant workers. Variations in rates of return to years of schooling across migrant workers working in the same urban labor market but having...

It is commonly assumed that cognitive skills start to decline by age 30 if not earlier, which could pose major challenges for rapidly aging populations. But this assumption largely relies on cross-sectional data that cannot distinguish between aging patterns and cohort differences in skills....

Bisherige Studien gehen davon aus, dass kognitive Fähig- keiten spätestens ab dem 30. Lebensjahr nachlassen. Die Annahme beruht jedoch weitgehend auf Querschnittsdaten, die nicht zwischen Alters- und Kohorteneffekten unterschei den können. Einzig artige deutsche Längsschnittdaten zu...

The changing pattern of quality in China’s rural schools across time and province is extracted from the differential labor market earnings of rural migrant workers. Variations in rates of return to years of schooling across migrant workers working in the same urban labor market but having...

We analyze the full distribution of displaced workers’ earnings losses using a new method that combines matching and synthetic control group approaches at the individual level. We find that the distribution of earnings losses is highly skewed. Average losses, as estimated by conventional event...

We analyze the full distribution of displaced workers' earnings losses using a new method that combines matching and synthetic control group approaches at the individual level. We find that the distribution of earnings losses is highly skewed. Average losses, as estimated by conventional event...

Die Entscheidung für eine Ausbildung oder ein Studium im Bereich Mathematik, Informatik, Naturwissenschaften und Technik (MINT) hängt nicht nur von absoluten Leistungen in Mathematik ab, sondern davon, wie gut Mathematik relativ zu anderen Fächern - etwa Sprache - gelingt. Dieser Beitrag...