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Child Labor and the Education of a Society
Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
We examine economic growth, inequality and education when the wellspring of growth is the formation of human capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761977
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Joblessness and Perceptions about the Effectiveness of Democracy
Altindag, Duha; Mocan, Naci - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Using micro data on more than 130,000 individuals from 69 countries, we analyze the extent to which joblessness of the individuals and the prevailing unemployment rate in the country impact perceptions of the effectiveness of democracy. We find that personal joblessness experience translates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506087
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American Education in the Age of Mass Migrations 1870-1930
Murtin, Fabrice; Viarengo, Martina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper derives original series of average years of schooling in the United States 1870-1930, which take into account the impact of mass migrations on the US educational level. We reconstruct the foreign-born US population by age and by country of origin, while combining data on the flow of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703138
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Does Money Matter for Schools?
Holmlund, Helena; McNally, Sandra; Viarengo, Martina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
There is considerable disagreement in the academic literature about whether raising school expenditure improves educational outcomes. Yet changing the level of resources is one of the key policy levers open to governments. In the UK, school expenditure has increased by about 40 per cent in real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822044
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Do School-to-Work Programs Help the "Forgotten Half"?
Neumark, David; Rothstein, Donna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
-secondary education, and coop, school enterprise, and internship/apprenticeship programs boost employment and decrease idleness after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822045
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The Effect of Schooling and Ability on Achievement Test Scores
Hansen, Karsten T.; Heckman, James J.; Mullen, Kathleen J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This paper develops two methods for estimating the effect of schooling on achievement test scores that control for the endogeneity of schooling by postulating that both schooling and test scores are generated by a common unobserved latent ability. These methods are applied to data on schooling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822092
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Merit Aid and Sorting: The Effects of HOPE-Style Scholarships on College Ability Stratification
Cornwell, Christopher; Mustard, David B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
aid has been increased attention to sorting in various aspects of life, especially in education. This paper examines the … extent to which merit-based aid exacerbates or ameliorates sorting by ability in higher education. We use panel data from … Peterson’s Guide to Colleges and the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) to evaluate this relationship. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822119
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Religious Affiliation and Participation as Determinants of Women’s Educational Attainment and Wages
Lehrer, Evelyn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Using a human capital model, this paper develops hypotheses about how religious affiliation and participation during childhood influence years of schooling completed and subsequent performance in the labor market as measured by wages. The hypotheses are tested using data from the 1995 National...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822148
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Education and Mobility
Machin, Stephen; Pelkonen, Panu; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We show that the length of compulsory education has a causal impact on regional labour mobility. The analysis is based … be due to differences in levels of education in the respective regions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822153
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Why the Apple Doesn’t Fall Far: Understanding Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822163