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Estimating the Payoff to Attending a More Selective College : an Application of Selection on Observables and Unobservables
Dale, Stacy Berg; Krueger, Alan B. - 2021
There are many estimates of the effect of college quality on students' subsequent earnings. One difficulty interpreting … past estimates, however, is that elite colleges admit students, in part, based on characteristics that are related to their … difficult to parse out the effect of attending a selective college from the students' pre-college characteristics. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013220788
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The effect of age at school entry on educational attainment : an application of instrumental variables with moments from two samples
Angrist, Joshua D.; Krueger, Alan B. - 1990
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000791232
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Reassessing the view that American schools are broken
Krueger, Alan B. - In: Economic policy review 4 (1998) 1, pp. 29-43
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001337454
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The Effect of Age at School Entry on Educational Attainment : An Application of Instrumental Variables with Moments from Two Samples
Angrist, Joshua D. - 1990
start age created by children's date of birth provides a natural experiment for estimation of the effect of age at school … can be derived for one cohort of students, to the 1980 Census, which contains educational attainment for the same cohort … of students. The results suggest that roughly 10 percent of students were constrained to stay in school by compulsory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475476
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The Effect of Age at School Entry on Educational Attainment : An Application of Instrumental Variables with Moments from Two Samples
Angrist, Joshua D.; Krueger, Alan B. - 2021
start age created by children's date of birth provides a natural experiment for estimation of the effect of age at school … can be derived for one cohort of students, to the 1980 Census, which contains educational attainment for the same cohort … of students. The results suggest that roughly 10 percent of students were constrained to stay in school by compulsory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235294
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483231
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Coping with change : international differences in the returns to skills
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2016
Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543634
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Coping with change : international differences in the returns to skills
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2016
Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544331
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Estimates of the economic returns to schooling from a new sample of twins
Ashenfelter, Orley; Krueger, Alan B. - 1993
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000951662
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Education for growth in Sweden and the world
Krueger, Alan B.; Lindahl, Mikael - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001392011