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Disruptive peers and academic performance : shortand long-term outcomes

Goulas, Sofoklis; Griselda, Silvia; Megalokonomou, Rigissa - 2024

How do disruptive peers shape academic and career paths? We examine this question by leveraging the random assignment of students to classrooms in Greece and identifying the effects of peer disruptiveness on academic performance and career paths. Using suspension hours as a measure of...

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Stay in school or start working? : the human capital investment decision under uncertainty and irreversibility

Bilkic, Natasa; Gries, Thomas; Pilichowski, Margarethe - 2009

As the time of leaving school determines the level of academic achievement this timing decision is central for the human capital investment decision. Real option theory offers a new perspective of the human capital investment decision under uncertainty and irreversibility. Unlike other...

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Entrepreneurship and market size : the case of young college graduates in Italy

Di Addario, Sabrina; Vuri, Daniela - 2010

We analyse empirically the effects of urbanization on Italian college graduates’ work possibilities as entrepreneurs three years after graduation. We find that doubling the province of work's population density reduces the chances of being an entrepreneur by 2-3 percentage points. This result...

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Student loans and the allocation of graduate jobs

Cigno, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa - 2015

level, degree mark) is strictly required to perform a graduate job. School leavers fall into two categories, the rich and … the poor. Ability is distributed in the same way in both groups. Graduate jobs are differentiated by quality. The output … of each graduate job-worker match depends on the worker's ability and educational achievement as well as on the quality …

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Are short-lived jobs stepping stones to long-lasting jobs?

Cockx, Bart; Picchio, Matteo - 2008

This paper assesses whether short-lived jobs (lasting one quarter or less and involuntarily ending in unemployment) are stepping stones to long-lasting jobs (enduring one year or more) for Belgian long-term unemployed school-leavers. We proceed in two steps. First, we estimate labour market...

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Educational and wage risk : social insurance vs. quality of education

Schindler, Dirk; Weigert, Benjamin - 2008

present risks is a dichotomic task: Wage risk is diversified ex post among the skilled by graduate taxation and skill … revenue from the graduate tax. -- Human capital investment ; educational risk ; wage risk ; learning effort ; graduate …

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Are expectations alone enough? : estimating the effect of mandatory college-prep curriculum in Michigan

Jacob, Brian Aaron; Dynarski, Susan M.; Frank, Kenneth; … - 2016

This paper examines the impacts of the Michigan Merit Curriculum (MMC), a statewide college-preparatory curriculum that applies to the high school graduating class of 2008 and later. We use a student, longitudinal database for all public school students in Michigan for the main analyses, and...

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Educating Europe

Poutvaara, Panu - 2004

could overcome this by allowing member states to institute graduate taxes or income-contingent loans, collected also from … migrants. This paper presents calculations on how a graduate tax system could look for Finland. To protect citizens against … Leviathan governments, graduate taxes or income-contingent loans could be based on voluntary contracts. Education would then be …

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Vocational high school graduate wage gap : the role of cognitive skills and firms

Hartog, Joop; Raposo, Pedro S.; Reis, Hugo - 2018

Comparing cohorts born between 1951 and 1994, we document and interpret changes in the wage differential among graduates from secondary education with a vocational and a general curriculum.. The wage gap initially increased and then decreased. We find that these changes cannot be attributed to...

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Examining income expectations in the college and early post-college periods : new distributional tests of rational expectations

Crossley, Thomas F.; Gong, Yifan; Stinebrickner, Todd R.; … - 2021

Unique longitudinal probabilistic expectations data from the Berea Panel Study, which cover both college and early post-college periods, are used to examine young adults’ beliefs about their future incomes. We introduce a new measure of the ex post accuracy of beliefs, and two new approaches...

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