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Formal education is correlated with entrepreneurial activity and success, but correlation does not indicate causation …. Education and entrepreneurship are both influenced by other related factors. The current study estimates causal effects of … formal education on entrepreneurship outcomes by instrumenting for an individual's years of schooling using cohort mean years …
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This paper examines the long-run effects of the 1980-1982 recession on education and income. Using confidential Census …
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Many nations have experienced both rising education levels and declining marriage rates. However, cross … suggests ambiguous causal effects of education on marriage. This study uses a novel instrumental variable approach and finds … that education decreases the probability of being married for younger persons but not for older persons. However, education …
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In recent years there has been a plethora of empirical papers by economists concerning the effects of academic rank in school or college on subsequent outcomes of students. We review this recent literature, describing the difficult identification and measurement issues, the assumptions and...
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In recent years there has been a plethora of empirical papers by economists concerning the effects of academic rank in school or college on subsequent outcomes of students. We review this recent literature, describing the difficult identification and measurement issues, the assumptions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168737
This paper surveys the empirical and theoretical link between education and growth in the growth process of Asian … countries. Particular attention is paid to the link between education and productivity, and to models that characterize key … education …
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improve: the quality, and not just the quantity, of education and health care; outcomes for disadvantaged groups; and lifelong …
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This paper surveys the trends in gender gaps in education, their causes and potential policy implications. I show that … tertiary education students and graduates. Existing evidence suggests that this pattern is a result of a combination of … increasing returns to education and lower female effort costs of education. Widening gender gap in education combined with recent …
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This paper reviews the recent literature on measuring and boosting cognitive and noncognitive skills. The literature establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character skills – personality traits, goals, motivations, and preferences that are valued in the labor market, in...
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Alternative credentials offer a partial solution to the skill gap and student debt crises, supernormal returns for some students, and a tool to support diversity hiring for firms. This paper tests the hypothesis that educational prestige explains hirability better than accreditation. An original...
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