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The effect of education policy on crime: An intergenerational perspective
Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Schnabel, Marieke - 2011
A number of studies have shown that education reforms extending compulsory schooling reduce criminal behavior of those affected by the reform. We consider the effects of a major Swedish educational reform on crime by exploiting its staggered implementation across Sweden. We first show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321147
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Do reported attitudes towards Immigrants predict ethnic discrimination?
Carlsson, Magnus; Eriksson, Stefan - 2012
Reported attitudes towards immigrants are sometimes used as a proxy for ethnic discrimination. However, there is little empirical evidence of a link between attitudes and discrimination. In this paper, we use survey data on people's attitudes towards immigrants combined with data on ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321476
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School choice and segregation: Evidence from an admission reform
Söderström, Martin; Uusitalo, Roope - 2005
This paper studies the effects of school choice on segregation. We analyze the effect of a reform in Stockholm that … changed the admission system of public upper secondary schools. Before the year 2000, students had priority to the school … the distribution of students over schools changed dramatically as a response to extending school choice. As expected, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317952
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Does making upper secondary school more comprehensive affect dropout rates, educational attainment and earnings? Evidence from a Swedish pilot scheme
Hall, Caroline - 2009
outcomes remain disputed. This paper evaluates the effects of the introduction of a more comprehensive upper secondary school … performing students. Though one important motive behind the policy change was to enable all upper secondary school graduates to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273927
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Early life environment and racial inequality in education and earnings in the United States
Chay, Kenneth Y.; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2014
Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
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School choice and student achievement: New evidence on open-enrolment
Söderström, Martin - 2006
Stockholm. Before 2000, students had priority to the public upper secondary school situated closest to where they lived, but … from the fall of 2000 and onwards, admission is based on grades only. The reform imposed strong incentives for school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317920
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Technology's edge: The educational benefits of computer-aided instruction
Barrow, Lisa; Markham, Lisa; Rouse, Cecilia Elena - 2007
urban school districts of a well-defined use of computers in schools: a popular instructional computer program which is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292103
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Wage inequality and returns to education in Turkey: a quantile regression analysis
Tansel, Aysit; Bircan, Fatma - 2011
This paper investigates the male wage inequality and its evolution over the 1994-2002 period in Turkey by estimating Mincerian wage equations using OLS and quantile regression techniques. Male wage inequality is high in Turkey. While it declined at the lower end of the wage distribution it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273688
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Smoking, discount rates, and returns to education
Fersterer, Josef; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2000
Individual time preference determines schooling enrolment. Moreover, smoking behavior in early ages has been shown to be highly related to time preference rates. Accordingly, we use smoking at age 16 as an instrument for schooling in order to cope with ability bias in a returns to education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294523
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The wage expectations of European college students
Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2001
Expected earnings and expected returns to education are seen by labor economists as a major determinant of educational attainment. In spite of this, the empirical knowledge about expectations and their formation is scarce. In this paper we report the results of the first systematic study of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294525