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Selective Schools
Brunello, Giorgio; Giannini, Massimo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
This paper studies how schooling admission tests affect economic performance in an economy where individuals are endowed with both academic and non academic abilities and both abilities matter for labor productivity. We develop a simple model with selective government held schools, where...
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Are the More Educated Receiving More Training? Evidence from Thailand
Ariga, Kenn; Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
This paper investigates the relationship between education and training provided by the firm, both on the job and off … education and off the job training. We also find that education and training are technical complements, especially in the case …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822498
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Efficiency and Equity Aspects of Alternative Social Security Rules
Jensen, Svend E. Hougaard; Lau, Morten I.; Poutvaara, Panu - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 60 (2004) 3, pp. 325-325
This paper studies human-capital formation, labor-supply, and retirement decisions associated with four alternative regimes of social security. We implement a theoretical model with overlapping generations of households and two different ability types within each generation. We find that with a...
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Comment on Education Returns of Wage Earners and Self-employed Workers
Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu; Tuomala, Juha - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
estimate education returns of wage earners and the self-employed in Portugal and in Spain. Our examination reveals several …
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The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … we consider the entire history of behaviors. We use an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of education and … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009385763
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Does School Tracking Affect Equality of Opportunity? New International Evidence
Checchi, Daniele; Brunello, Giorgio - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2006
attainment and earnings by arguing that the signalling role of formal education – captured by attainment – matters more than …
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The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical … approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this … approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12 European countries and has information on education, health and health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278192
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When the cat is near, the mice won't play: the effect of external examiners in Italian schools
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
We use a natural experiment to show that the presence of an external examiner has both a direct and an indirect negative effect on the performance of monitored classes in standardized educational tests. The direct effect is the difference in the test performance between classes of the same...
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When the Cat Is Near, the Mice Won't Play: The Effect of External Examiners in Italian Schools
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We use a natural experiment to show that the presence of an external examiner in standardized school tests reduces the proportion of correct answers in monitored classes by 5.5 to 8.5% – depending on the grade and the test – with respect to classes in schools with no external monitor. We...
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Books Are Forever: Early Life Conditions, Education and Lifetime Income
Brunello, Giorgio; Weber, Guglielmo; Weiss, Christoph T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In this paper we estimate the effect of education on lifetime earnings in Europe, by distinguishing between individuals …. We instrument years of education using reforms of compulsory education in nine different countries, and find that … education. Our main result is that books at home at age ten have had long-lasting beneficial effects on the individuals who were …
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