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Catch me if you can : education and catch-up in the industrial revolution

Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

Existing evidence, mostly from British textile industries, rejects the importance of formal education for the Industrial Revolution. We provide new evidence from Prussia, a technological follower, where early-19th-century institutional reforms created the conditions to adopt the exogenously...

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When the cat is near, the mice won't play : the effect of external examiners in Italian schools

Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2012

We use a natural experiment to show that the presence of an external examiner in standardized school tests reduces the proportion of correct answers in monitored classes by 5.5 to 8.5% - depending on the grade and the test - with respect to classes in schools with no external monitor. We find...

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Comparative essay on returns to education in Palestine and Turkey

Tansel, Aysıt; Daoud, Yousef - 2011

This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period 2004-2008. Comparable data, similar definitions and same methodology are used in the estimations. The estimates are provided first for average returns to education second for...

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The marginal income effect of education on happiness : estimating the direct and indirect effects of compulsory schooling on well-being in Australia

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Wooden, Mark - 2013

Many economists and educators favour public support for education on the premise that education improves the overall well-being of citizens. However, little is known about the causal pathways through which education shapes people's subjective well-being (SWB). This paper explores the direct and...

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Taking chances : the effect of growing up on welfare on the risky behavior of young people

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Ryan, Christopher J.; … - 2009

We analyze the effect of growing up on welfare on young people's involvement in a variety of social and health risks. Young people in welfare families are much more likely to take both social and health risks. Much of the apparent link between family welfare history and risk taking disappears,...

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Linking individuals and societies

Jasso, Guillermina - 2009

How do individuals shape societies? How do societies shape individuals? This paper develops a framework for studying the connections between micro and macro phenomena. The framework builds on two ingredients widely used in social science - population and variable. Starting with the simplest case...

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Gender and culture

Giuliano, Paola - 2020

This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force participation, and performance in mathematics, amongst many others) show remarkable differences across countries and tend to persist over time. The economics literature...

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Did the "Bologna Process" achieve its goals? : 20 years of empirical evidence on student enrolment, study success and labour market outcomes

Kroher, Martina; Leuze, Kathrin; Thomsen, Stephan L.; … - 2021

years later, we examine whether these goals were met by reviewing quantitative articles from sociology and economics. We …

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What drives differences in management?

Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - 2017

Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing … plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within … the same firm. This management variation accounts for about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as …

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Does management matter in schools?

Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

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