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Head start and the distribution of long term education and labor market outcomes

Haan, Monique de; Leuven, Edwin - 2016

, blacks and Hispanics. For wage income we also find evidence that Head Start has beneficial impacts, with effects located at …

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Do Dutch dentists extract monopoly rents?

Ketel, Nadine; Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; … - 2018

We exploit admission lotteries to estimate the payoffs to the dentistry study in the Netherlands. Using data from up to 22 years after the lottery, we find that in most years after graduation dentists earn around 50,000 Euros more than they would earn in their next-best profession. The payoff is...

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A new approach to estimate the wage returns to work-related training

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2002

This paper proposes a new approach to identify the wage effects of training. The idea is to narrow down the comparison group by only taking into consideration the workers who wanted to participate in training but did not do so because of some random event. The point estimate of the return to...

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Long term impacts of class size in compulsory school

Leuven, Edwin; Løkken, Sturla Andreas - 2017

on income as small as 0.087 percent in primary school and 0.12 percent in middle school. Population differences in …

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A community college instructor like me : race and ethnicity interactions in the classroom

Fairlie, Robert W.; Hoffmann, Florian; Oreopoulos, Philip - 2011

quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar race or ethnicity to their instructors … performance gap in terms of class dropout and pass rates between white and minority students falls by roughly half when taught by … a minority instructor. In models that allow for a full set of ethnic and racial interactions between students and …

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Overeducation and mismatch in the labor market

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2011

This paper surveys the economics literature on overeducation. The original motivation to study this topic were reports that the strong increase in the number of college graduates in the early 1970s in the US led to a decrease in the returns to college education. We argue that Duncan and...

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College admission as a screening and sorting device

Gandil, Mikkel; Leuven, Edwin - 2022

admit students that tend to struggle elsewhere. Most of the impact of alternative evaluation is found to be due to their … impact on the applicant pool (sorting), and not because of they are better at identifying successful students keeping the …

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