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The effect of labor market shocks across the life cycle

Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willage, Barton; Willén, Alexander - 2021

Adverse economic shocks occur frequently and may cause individuals to reevaluate key life decisions in ways that have lasting consequences for themselves and the economy. These life decisions are fundamentally tied to specific periods of an individual's career, and economic shocks may therefore...

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Social exclusion and optimal redistribution

Aronsson, Thomas; Bastani, Spencer; Tayibov, Khayyam - 2021

redistributive taxation. Our results show how an optimal mix of education policy, public employment, and support to the unemployed …-best optimum most likely implies overprovision of education relative to a policy rule that balances the direct marginal benefit and …

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Religious practice and student performance : evidence from Ramadan fasting

Hornung, Erik; Schwerdt, Guido; Strazzeri, Maurizio - 2021

We investigate how the intensity of Ramadan affects educational outcomes by exploiting spatio-temporal variation in annual fasting hours. Longer fasting hours are related to increases in student performance in a panel of TIMMS test scores (1995–2019) across Muslim countries but not other...

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Prioritarianism in education

Ooghe, Erwin - 2021

on education. Afterwards, I analyze how prioritarians would allocate resources in a dynamic model of skill formation and …

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Home broadband and human capital formation

Sanchis-Guarner, Rosa; Montalbán, José; Weinhardt, Felix - 2021

This paper estimates the effect of home high-speed internet on national test scores of students at age 14. We combine comprehensive information on the telecom network, administrative student records, house prices and local amenities in England in a fuzzy spatial regression discontinuity design...

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Optimal redistribution in the presence of signaling

Bastani, Spencer; Blumḳin, Tomer; Micheletto, Luca - 2021

We analyze optimal redistribution in the presence of labor market signaling where innate productive ability is not only unobserved by the government, but also by prospective employers. Signaling in both one and two dimensions is considered, where in the latter case firms have an informational...

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The value of formal host-country education for the labour market position of refugees : evidence from Austria

Ludolph, Lars - 2021

Refugees hosted across the developed world often work in low-quality jobs, regardless of education previously attained … in their country of origin. In this paper, I analyse the long-term value of formal host-country education for refugees … of receiving host-country instead of origin country education to recover local average treatment effects of education …

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Children's patience and school-track choices several years later : linking experimental and field data

Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; … - 2021

We present direct evidence on the link between children’s patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three years later at the end of middle school, we find...

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Are there no wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany? : a reassessment

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2021

This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and von Wachter (Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3), 592-598), which is unusual in the literature yet widely cited and until now uncontradicted. I document that this finding...

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Using predictive analytics to track students : evidence from a seven-college experiment

Bergman, Peter; Kopko, Elizabeth; Rodríguez, Julio - 2021

Tracking is widespread in U.S. education. In post-secondary education alone, at least 71% of colleges use a test to …

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