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The Long-Run Effects of Attending an Elite School: Evidence from the UK

Clark, Damon; Del Bono, Emilia - 2014

This paper estimates the impact of elite school attendance on long-run outcomes including completed education, income …, we find that elite school attendance had large impacts on completed education. For women, we find that elite school …

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The Long-Run Effects of Attending an Elite School: Evidence from the UK

Clark, Damon; Del Bono, Emilia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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Do a Few Months of Compulsory Schooling Matter? : The Education and Labour Market Impact of School Leaving Rules

Del Bono, Emilia; Galindo-Rueda, Fernando - 2004

students compelled to stay on in education as a result of this compulsory school leaving rule attain higher qualification …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261989

Do a Few Months of Compulsory Schooling Matter? The Education and Labour Market Impact of School Leaving Rules

Del Bono, Emilia; Galindo-Rueda, Fernando - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

students compelled to stay on in education as a result of this compulsory school leaving rule attain higher qualification …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703340

Vulnerable Boys: Short-Term and Long-Term Gender Differences in the Impacts of Adolescent Disadvantage

Lei, Ziteng; Lundberg, Shelly - 2020

The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised concerns that the skill development of boys may be more sensitive to family disadvantage than that of girls. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) data we find, as do...

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School Performance, Score Inflation and Economic Geography

Battistin, Erich; Neri, Lorenzo - 2017

We show that grading standards for primary school exams in England have triggered an inflation of quality indicators in the national performance tables for almost two decades. The cumulative effects have resulted in significant differences in the quality signaled to parents for otherwise...

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The Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service on the Long-Term Health of Veterans: A Bounds Analysis

Wang, Xintong; Flores, Carlos A.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso - 2021

We analyze the short- and long-term effects of the U.S. Vietnam-era military service on veterans' health outcomes using a restricted version of the National Health Interview Survey 1974-2013 and employing the draft lotteries as an instrumental variable (IV). We start by assessing whether the...

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Assortative Mating on Education: A Genetic Assessment

Barban, Nicola; De Cao, Elisabetta; Oreffice, Sonia; … - 2019

We investigate assortative mating on education using a sample of couples from the Health and Retirement Study. We … estimate a reduced-form linear matching function, which links wife's education to husband's education and both wife's and … husband's unobservable characteristics. Using OLS we find that an additional year in husband's education is associated with an …

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Parental Preferences for Primary School Characteristics

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Zölitz, Ulf - 2014

Free school choice has often been argued to be a tide that lifts school quality through increased competition. This paper analyzes the underlying assumption that school quality is an important choice criterion for parents. Using a large and representative data set of over 15,000 Dutch primary...

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School Quality and the Development of Cognitive Skills between Age Four and Six

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Zölitz, Ulf - 2015

This paper studies the extent to which young children develop their cognitive ability in high and low quality schools. We use a representative panel data set containing cognitive test scores of 4-6 year olds in Dutch schools. School quality is measured by the school's average achievement test...

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