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Literacy traps : society-wide education and individual skill premia
Atal, Vidya; Basu, Kaushik; Gray, John; Lee, Travis - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003839303
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Literacy traps : society-wide education and individual skill premia
Atal, Vidya; Basu, Kaushik; Gray, John; Lee, Travis - In: International journal of economic theory 6 (2010) 1, pp. 137-148
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003947385
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Literacy traps : society-wide education and individual skill premia
Atal, Vidya; Basu, Kaushik; Gray, John; Lee, Travis - 2009
mechanism for solving the coordination failure in people's choice of educational strategy. -- education ; literacy ; O …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003862834
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Literacy traps : society-wide education and individual skill premia
Atal, Vidya; Basu, Kaushik; Gray, John; Lee, Travis - 2009
mechanism for solving the coordination failure in people’s choice of educational strategy. -- Education ; literacy ; O …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003818089
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Literacy Traps : Society-Wide Education and Individual Skill Premia
Atal, Vidya - 2009
Using a model of O-ring production function, the paper demonstrates how certain communities can get caught in a low-literacy trap in which each individual finds it not worthwhile investing in higher skills because others are not high-skilled. The model sheds light on educational policy. It is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764476
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Educational policies and income inequality
Checchi, Daniele; Werfhorst, Herman van de - 2014
income distributions. By matching inequality measures on test scores, years of education and labour earnings by country …, birth cohorts and gender, we show that inequality in education (measured both at quality and quantity levels) affect … earnings inequality. We then consider potential endogeneity of educational distributions and we resort to instrumental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360297
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Educational Policies and Income Inequality
Checchi, Daniele - 2014
income distributions. By matching inequality measures on test scores, years of education and labour earnings by country …, birth cohorts and gender, we show that inequality in education (measured both at quality and quantity levels) affect … earnings inequality. We then consider potential endogeneity of educational distributions and we resort to instrumental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052563
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The effects of schooling on cognitive skills : evidence from education expansions
Cappellari, Lorenzo; Checchi, Daniele; Ovidi, Marco - 2022
We quantify the causal effect of schooling on cognitive skills across 21 countries and the full distribution of working-age individuals. We exploit exogenous variation in educational attainment induced by a broad set of institutional reforms affecting different cohorts of individuals in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013467048
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The effects of schooling on cognitive skills : evidence from education expansions
Cappellari, Lorenzo; Checchi, Daniele; Ovidi, Marco - 2023
We quantify the causal effect of schooling on cognitive skills across 21 countries and the full distribution of working-age individuals. We exploit exogenous variation in educational attainment induced by a broad set of institutional reforms affecting different cohorts of individuals in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013499579
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Educational policies in a long-run perspective
Braga, Michela; Checchi, Daniele; Meschi, Elena - In: Economic policy : a European forum 73 (2013), pp. 45-100
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009746448