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Students face four decision margins: (a) How many years to spend in school, (b) What to study, (c) How much effort to devote to learning per year and (d) Whether to disrupt or assist the learning of classmates. The thousands of studies that have applied human capital theory to the first two...
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IAE's TIMSS 2015 study in order to quantify the gender achievement gap in eighth grade mathematics. Based on an education …
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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
Using an international survey that directly assesses the cognitive skills of the adult population, I study the relation between skills and unemployment flows across 37 countries. Depending on the specifically assessed domain, I document that skills have an unconditional correlation with the...
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education level. We compare the estimates with our previous ones (Barro and Lee, 2001) and alternative measures (Cohen and Soto …
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Many empirical works suggest that education has a positive effect on earnings not only because it raises human capital … role could have important consequences on the dynamics of education, wages, and wage distribution when there exist … intergenerational linkages in educational decisions. This paper examines the dynamic effects in an economy where education has the dual …
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