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Timing of College Enrollment and Family Formation Decisions

Humlum, Maria Knoth; Kristoffersen, Jannie H. G.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

fertility decisions. Specifically, we employ a regression discontinuity design based on the college admission system to estimate …

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Too Young to Leave the Nest? The Effects of School Starting Age

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Does it matter when a child starts school? While the popular press seems to suggest it does, there is limited evidence of a long-run effect of school starting age on student outcomes. This paper uses data on the population of Norway to examine the role of school starting age on longer-run...

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Fast Times at Ridgemont High? The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Births

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Research suggests that teenage childbearing adversely affects both the outcomes of the mothers as well as those of … that increase educational attainment reduce early fertility? This paper investigates whether increasing mandatory … legislation aimed at improving educational outcomes may have spillover effects onto the fertility decisions of teenagers. …

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Charters Without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston

Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila; Angrist, Joshua; Hull, Peter D.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Lottery estimates suggest oversubscribed urban charter schools boost student achievement markedly. But these estimates needn't capture treatment effects for students who haven't applied to charter schools or for students attending charters for which demand is weak. This paper reports estimates...

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Reaching High: Occupational Sorting and Higher Education Wage Inequality in the UK

Kleibrink, Jan; Michaelsen, Maren M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The Further and Higher Education Act of 1992 changed the Higher Education system in the UK by giving all polytechnics university status. Using the British Household Panel Survey and accounting for different sources of selection bias, we show that wage differentials between university and...

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Education, Health and Mortality: Evidence from a Social Experiment

Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Simeonova, Emilia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We study the effect of a compulsory education reform in Sweden on adult health and mortality. The reform was …

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Incentives and Effort in the Public Sector: Have U.S. Education Reforms Increased Teachers’ Work Hours?

Stoddard, Christiana; Kuhn, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Beyond some contracted minimum, salaried workers’ hours are largely chosen at the worker’s discretion and should respond to the strength of contract incentives. Accordingly, we consider the response of teacher hours to accountability and school choice laws introduced in U.S. public schools...

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Does Teacher Testing Raise Teacher Quality? Evidence from State Certification Requirements

Angrist, Joshua D.; Guryan, Jonathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

The education reform movement includes efforts to raise teacher quality through stricter certification and licensing provisions. Most US states now require public school teachers to pass a standardized test such as the Praxis. Although any barrier to entry is likely to raise wages in the...

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Education and Family Background: Mechanisms and Policies

Björklund, Anders; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

In every society for which we have data, people’s educational achievement is positively correlated with their parents’ education or with other indicators of their parents’ socioeconomic status. This topic is central in social science, and there is no doubt that research has intensified...

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Labour Supply and Childcare for British Mothers in Two-Parent Families: A Structural Approach

Parera-Nicolau, Antonia; Mumford, Karen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

the importance of childcare related variables. We find working mothers do not increase their working hours when hourly … wages increase, indeed, they are more likely to reduce their hours. The major inducement for working mothers to increase … at increasing working hours amongst British mothers of pre-school children may need to focus on the quality as well as …

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