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Where Do STEM Graduates Stem From? The Intergenerational Transmission of Comparative Skill Advantages

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

comparative advantages in math of parents are significantly linked to those of their children. A causal interpretation follows … quality. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields …

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Ramadan intensity and subsequent student achievement

Hornung, Erik; Schwerdt, Guido; Strazzeri, Maurizio - 2022

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The effect of opposite sex siblings on cognitive and noncognitive skills in early childhood

Cyron, Laura; Schwerdt, Guido; Viarengo, Martina - In: Applied economics letters 24 (2017) 19, pp. 1369-1373

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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...

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Coping with change : international differences in the returns to skills

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2016

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Coping with change : international differences in the returns to skills

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2016

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The information value of central school exams

Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015

increasing the informational content of grades, central exams may improve the sorting of students by productivity. To test this …, we exploit the unique German setting where students from states with and without central exams work on the same labor …

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The information value of central school exams

Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015

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Coping with change : international differences in the returns to skills

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - In: Economics letters 153 (2017), pp. 15-19

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The information value of central school exams

Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - In: Economics of education review 56 (2017), pp. 65-79

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