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performance in further education or in the labour market, and we seek evidence of such phenomena in Italian data. If students … differ not only in terms of their families’ ability to pay but also in terms of their own ability to take advantage of … public schools than for those who choose to pay for private education. …
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supply responses are larger for women with lower wages, less education, and lower income. …
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the role of ability, technological progress increases wage inequality within each group of education as well as between … child's ability we show the following set of results: (a) Controlling for education of the child, parents' education …'s education increases from the 1970s to the 1980s. (c) The return to college education to the individual who has no ability rents …
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in three areas. First, we use identical twins, to control for family effects and genetic ability bias, and the education …-family correlations of education with observable correlates of ability (including birthweight, ability tests and reading scores). Our …We use a new sample of UK female identical twins to estimate private economic returns to education. We report findings …
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enrollment in each year, in our exceptional data set. We control for father occupation, mother education and other variables …
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difference in favour of father’s education over mother’s education. …
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differences in parents' involvement in education. We find that a non-negligible part of the test score racial gap can be explained … by these cultural differences. In particular, we show that if non-white parents would invest in education of their 11 …
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It is shown, both theoretically and empirically, that failure to take age at arrival into account leads to some bias in estimates of earnings change with years since migration. In addition, the analysis reveals that results are sensitive to the approach taken to inclusion of information on...
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It is opportune to esplore the conceptual basis of Higher Education Contribution Scheme, examine its revenue and … practical implications, and ask if its institutionhas diminished the access of the disadvantaged to Australia's higher education …
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We develop a network model looking at the role of different types of peers in education. The empirical salience of the … and persistent peer effects in education but peers tend to be influential only when their friendships last more than a …
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