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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...
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highly liberalized Chilean education market, we develop a model in which schools are heterogeneous in an underlying …
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We study the effects of managerial practices in schools on students' outcomes. We measure managerial practices using the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable across countries.We find substantial heterogeneity in...
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We study how managerial practices of school principals affect student performance and aspirations. We link administrative data on secondary Italian students to the management scores of their school principals in 2011 and 2015 based on the World Management Survey methodology. The frequent...
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This paper examines the role of education as causal channel through which growing up poor affects the economic outcomes …, our results reveal a significant role of education in this intergenerational transmission. These results are particularly …
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of peer effect we restrict to no-child-adult-peers who completed their education much before the children in our sample …
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We use the high IQ Terman sample to estimate relationships between education, socioemotional skills, and health … subjects, education is linked to better health-related outcomes, in contrast to previous evidence. Conscientiousness, Openness …
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In this study, we examine the impact of an individual's education level on her/his mating success by means of a field … field of evolutionary psychology, our results indicate a heterogeneous effect of education level by gender: while females … for educational assortative mating, i.e. preferring a partner with a similar education level, on mobile dating apps such …
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accordance with our hypotheses regarding the effect of both age and education on the gains to promotion. However, the statistical …
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This paper surveys the trends in gender gaps in education, their causes and potential policy implications. I show that … tertiary education students and graduates. Existing evidence suggests that this pattern is a result of a combination of … increasing returns to education and lower female effort costs of education. Widening gender gap in education combined with recent …
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