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Economic Returns to Speaking the Right Language(s)? Evidence from Kazakhstan's Shift in State Language and Language of Instruction

Aldashev, Alisher; Danzer, Alexander M. - 2014

This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan, a multi-ethnic country with complex ethnic settlement patterns that has switched its official state language from Russian to Kazakh. Using two newly assembled data sets, we...

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Decolonization, Property Rights and Language Conflicts

Dasgupta, Indraneel; Neogi, Ranajoy Guha - 2017

We model political contestation over school language policy, within linguistic communities where weak property rights protection leads to high decentralized expropriation. We show that improvements in governance institutions that facilitate property rights protection might exacerbate such...

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Can state language policies distort students' demand for higher education?

Muravyev, Alexander; Talavera, Oleksandr - 2010

This paper takes advantage of a recent policy experiment in Ukraine's secondary education system to study the effect of stricter requirements for proficiency in the state language on linguistic minority students' demand for, as well as opportunities to pursue, further studies at the university...

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Economic Returns to Speaking the Right Language(s)? Evidence from Kazakhstan's Shift in State Language and Language of Instruction

Aldashev, Alisher; Danzer, Alexander M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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Can State Language Policies Distort Students' Demand for Higher Education?

Muravyev, Alexander; Talavera, Oleksandr - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper takes advantage of a recent policy experiment in Ukraine's secondary education system to study the effect of stricter requirements for proficiency in the state language on linguistic minority students’ demand for, as well as opportunities to pursue, further studies at the university...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805629

Unbundling Returns to Postsecondary Degrees and Skills: Evidence from Colombia

Busso, Matias; Montaño, Sebastián; Muñoz-Morales, Juan S. - 2024

Using longitudinal data of college graduates in Colombia, we estimate labor market returns to postsecondary degrees and to various skills—including literacy, numeracy, foreign language, and field-specific skills. Graduates of academic programs and schools of higher reputation obtain higher...

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Integrating Gender into a Labor Economics Class

Strenio, Jacqueline; van der Meulen Rodgers, Yana - 2023

This article argues that a systematic integration of gender into labor economics courses based on standard textbooks is both beneficial and straightforward. An undergraduate course in labor economics presents an ideal opportunity to introduce students to the importance of gender differences in...

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What We Teach about Race and Gender: Representation in Images and Text of Children's Books

Adukia, Anjali; Eble, Alex; Harrison, Emileigh; … - 2023

Books shape how children learn about society and norms, in part through representation of different characters. We introduce new artificial intelligence methods for systematically converting images into data and apply them, along with text analysis methods, to measure the representation of skin...

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The Effect of Choice Options in Training Curricula on the Supply of and Demand for Apprenticeships

Jansen, Anika; de Grip, Andries; Kriechel, Ben - 2016

curriculum on supply of and demand for apprenticeship training. Modernizations of training curricula provide us with a quasi … when they have more choice options in the training curriculum because of (1) the higher productivity of graduates who have … 2014. We find that a more heterogeneous curriculum increases both firms' supply of and students' demand for training places. …

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Making the Grade: The Effect of Teacher Grading Standards on Student Outcomes

Gershenson, Seth; Holt, Stephen B.; Tyner, Adam - 2022

Teachers are among the most important inputs in the education production function. One mechanism by which teachers … and teachers in 8th and 9th grade Algebra I classrooms from 2006 to 2016, we examine the effects of teachers' grading …

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