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Estimating Returns to Education: Three Natural Experiment Techniques Compared

Leigh, Andrew; Ryan, Chris - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

twins. With annual pre-tax income as our measure of income, we find that the naïve (OLS) returns to an additional year of … schooling laws as an IV produces a 12% rate of return. Finally, we review estimates from twins studies. While we estimate a … and schooling in our dataset. Australian twins studies are consistent with our findings insofar as they find little …

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Returns to Education: Evidence from UK Twins

Bonjour, Dorothe; Cherkas, Lynn; Haskel, Jonathan; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We use a new sample of UK female identical twins to estimate private economic returns to education. We report findings … in three areas. First, we use identical twins, to control for family effects and genetic ability bias, and the education … findings suggest lower ability bias in within-twin pair regressions than pooled regressions. Third, using data on twins smoking …

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Effects on School Enrollment and Performance of a Conditional Cash Transfers Program in Mexico

de Janvry, Alain; Dubois, Pierre; Sadoulet, Elisabeth - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We study the effects of a conditional cash transfers program on school enrollment and performance in Mexico. We provide a theoretical framework for analyzing the dynamic educational process including the endogeneity and uncertainty of performance at school (passing grades) and the effect of a...

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The Effect of High School Matriculation Awards: Evidence from Randomized Trials

Angrist, Joshua; Lavy, Victor - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

In Israel, as in many other countries, a high school matriculation certificate is required by universities and some jobs. In spite of the certificate’s value, Israeli society is marked by vast differences in matriculation rates by region and socioeconomic status. We attempted to increase the...

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Income Contingent Loans for Higher Education: International Reform

Chapman, Bruce - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

It is well known that higher education financing involves uncertainty and risk with respect to students’ future economic fortunes, and an unwillingness of banks to provide loans because of the absence of collateral. It follows that without government intervention there will be both socially...

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Immigration and the School System

Albornoz-Crespo, Facundo; Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging eects on the educational systems of host countries. There is a now a large empirical literature, but very little theoretical work on this topic. We introduce a model of family immigration in a framework where school...

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Rates of Return to University Education: the Regression Discontinuity Design

Fan, Elliott; Meng, Xin; Wei, Zhichao; Zhao, Guochang - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2010

Estimating the rate of return to a university degree has always been difficult due to the problem of omitted variable biases. Benefiting from a special feature of the University Admission system in China, which has clear cutoffs for university entry, combined with a unique data set with...

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Paying for Performance: The Effect of Teachers' Financial Incentives on Students' Scholastic Outcomes

Lavy, Victor - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Performance-related pay for teachers is being introduced in many countries, but there is little evaluation to date on the effects of such programmes. This Paper evaluates a particular incentive experiment. The incentive program is a rank-order tournament among teachers of English, Hebrew, and...

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Publish or Perish? Incentives and Careers in Italian Academia

Checchi, Daniele; De Fraja, Gianni; Verzillo, Stefano - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We derive a theoretical model of effort in the presence of career concern based on the multi-unit all-pay auction, and closely inspired by the Italian academic market. In this model, the number of applicants, the number of new posts, and the relative importance of the determinants of promotion...

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Academic Achievements: Grades versus Duration

Brugiavini, Agar; Carraro, Carlo; Kovacic, Matija - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

This paper investigates the determinants of academic achievements of post-reform undergraduate students of Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Academic achievements are measured with the students' grade point averages and time to graduation. The set of independent variables contains information on...

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