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Imperfect signals
Graetz, Georg - 2023
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The returns to education for opportunity entrepreneurs, necessity entrepreneurs, and paid employees
Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias J. M. - 2012
We assess the relevance of formal education for the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between … employment options. We expect differences in the returns to education between these groups because of different levels of control …. We use the German Socio-economic Panel and account for the endogeneity of education and non-random selection. The results …
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Growing up in ethnic enclaves : language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children
Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2018
Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s in...
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Class rank and long-run outcomes
Denning, Jeffrey T.; Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - 2018
This paper considers a fundamental question about the school environment - what are the long run effects of a student's ordinal rank in elementary school? Using administrative data from all public school students in Texas, we show that students with a higher third grade academic rank,...
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Behavioural response to a sudden health risk : Dengue and educational outcomes in Colombia
Barron, Kai; Gamboa, Luis Fernando; Rodriguez-Lesmes, Paul - 2017
Epidemics tend to have a debilitating influence on the lives of directly afflicted families. However, the presence of an epidemic can also change the behaviour and outcomes of those not directly affected. This paper makes use of a short, sharp, unexpected epidemic to examine the behavioural...
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The legacy of Covid-19 in education
Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
on the conceptual framework of an education production function, we cover evidence on child, parent, and school inputs …
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Grades and employer learning
Hansen, Anne Toft; Hvidman, Ulrik; Sievertsen, Hans Henrik - 2021
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Stated and revealed heterogeneous risk preferences in educational choice
Fossen, Frank M.; Glocker, Daniela - 2014
Stated survey measures of risk preferences are increasingly being used in the literature, and they have been compared to revealed risk aversion primarily by means of experiments such as lottery choice tasks. In this paper, we investigate educational choice, which involves the comparison of risky...
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Consumer-optimal information design
Wangenheim, Jonas von - 2017
In many trade environments - such as online markets - buyers fully learn their valuation for goods only after contracting. I characterize the buyer-optimal ex-ante information in such environments. Employing a classical sequential screening framework, I find that buyers prefer to remain...
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Signaling in retrospect and the informational structure of markets
Spence, Andrew Michael - In: The American economic review 92 (2002) 3, pp. 434-459
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