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Why does educational attainment differ across US states?

Hendricks, Lutz - 2004

The fraction of persons holding a college degree differs nearly two-fold across U.S. states. This paper documents data related to state educational attainment differences and explores possible explanations. It shows that highly educated states employ skillbiased technologies, specialize in...

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Teacher quality and incentives theoretical and empirical effects of standards on teacher quality

Juerges, Hendrik; Richter, Wolfram F.; Schneider, Kerstin - 2004

Applying the theory of yardstick competition to the schooling system, we show that it is optimal to have central tests of student achievement and to engage in benchmarking because it raises the quality of teaching. This is true even if teachers? pay (defined in monetary terms) is not performance...

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Optimal policy towards families with different amounts of social capital, in the presence of asymmetric information and stochastic fertility

Cigno, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa - 2006

We examine the effects of differences in social capital on first and second best transfers to families with children, in an asymmetric information context where the number of births, and the future earning capacity of each child that is born, are random variables. The probability that a couple...

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A theoretical analysis of the effects of legislation on marriage, fertility, domestic division of labour, and the education of children

Cigno, Alessandro - 2007

Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two …, and (iv) length and effective enforcement of compulsory education. The predictions are consistent with two empirical … countries tend to get less education than boys of the same educational ability, and of why a substantial minority of women in …

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Democratic participation and the size of regions: an empirical study using data on German counties

Seitz, Helmut - 2008

The paper examines the relation between political participation and the size of regions taking German counties as observational units. The paper makes several contributions to the literature. To begin with, we measure political participation along two dimensions namely voter turnout, which is...

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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US?: selective features of immigration to four major OECD countries

Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008

Building on a new data set which is combined from national micro-data bases, we highlight differences in the structure of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source...

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The effects of school competition on academic achievement and grading standards

Himmler, Oliver - 2009

performance in pre-university education. Employing data from central exit exams, a positive link between competition intensity and …

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Women's education and family behavior: Trends in marriage, divorce and fertility

Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - 2010

women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed … marital patterns by education for men. …

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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions

Portela, Miguel; Alessie, Rob J. M.; Teulings, Coen N. - 2006

The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …

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The causal effect of parents' schooling on children's schooling: A comparison of estimation methods

Holmlund, Helena; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik - 2010

We review the empirical literature that estimates the causal effect of parent's schooling on child's schooling, and conclude that estimates differ across studies. We then consider three explanations for why this is: (a) idiosyncratic differences in data sets; (b) differences in remaining biases...

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