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educational investment. We offer a matching model of unemployment in which individuals of a given education determine the scope …
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contexts. These observations suggest that skills matter for explaining wage effects of education and educational mismatches …
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primary school education from 7 to 8 years. At the same time, the reform did not affect the education system at post …-primary levels, that is the system of secondary and higher education. In result, all education tracks were extended by one year … reform had a negative impact on the hourly earnings of individuals with primary education. …
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period, first the post-World War baby boom and then the substantial increase in education led to higher economic growth than … otherwise expected. As the pace of increase in education slowed and the workforce aged toward the end of the period, human …
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education they receive. School enrollment rates have increased dramatically in developing counties since 1960, but many children … of education and other policies on the quantity and quality of education obtained by children in developing countries …
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primary education and grade repetition. Using variation in the fraction of students with migration background among adjacent …
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This study analyzes the effect of education on the number of children, childlessness, and the timing of births. We use …. In contrast to studies for other developed countries, we find a significant negative effect of education on fertility … addition, education reduces the probability of first motherhood among women in their early 30s. We attribute these findings to …
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A model is presented where workers of differing abilities and from different social backgrounds are assigned to jobs based on grades received at school. It is examined how this matching is affected if good grades are granted to some low ability students. Such grade inflation is shown to reduce...
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We identify effects of age at school entry (ASE) on the development of child temperament. Our analysis is based on psychometric measures from a longitudinal cohort study of children in the Rhine-Neckar region in central Germany. In children with a higher ASE due to a birthday late in the year,...
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This paper investigates two mechanisms through which education may affect cognitive skills in adolescence: the role of …. Overall, secondary education therefore seems to impact students'cognitive skills in adolescence especially through …
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