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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9141 John Cawley
Anna Choi
Health Disparities Across Education: The Role of Differential Reporting Error
One of the most robust findings in health economics is that higher-educated individuals tend to be in better health. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2018, 27 (3), e1-e29.)
I1, I12, I14, I20, I24, I3
9138 Martin Huber
Michael Lechner
Anthony Strittmatter
Direct and Indirect Effects of Training Vouchers for the Unemployed
This paper evaluates the effect of a voucher award system for assignment into vocational training on the employment outcomes of unemployed voucher recipients in Germany, along with the causal ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society), 2018, 181 (3), 441-463 ()
J64, J68, C21, C31
9137 Dieter Verhaest
Stijn Baert
The Early Labour Market Effects of Generally and Vocationally Oriented Higher Education: Is There a Trade-off?
This study investigates whether the choice for a vocationally versus a generally oriented higher education program entails a trade-off between higher employment chances and better matches at the ...
(revised version published as 'The effects of workplace learning in higher education on employment and match quality: Is there an early-career trade-off?' in: Empirical Economics, 2018, 44, 1229 - 1270)
I21, J24, J64, C21, C41
9136 Pablo Ibarrarán
Jochen Kluve
Laura Ripani
David Rosas Shady
Experimental Evidence on the Long-Term Impacts of a Youth Training Program
This paper presents the results of a randomized controlled trial on the long-term impacts of a youth training program. The empirical analysis estimates labor market impacts six years after the ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2019, 72 (1), 85-222 )
J24, J64, O15, O17
9134 Alexander Spermann
How to Fight Long-Term Unemployment: Lessons from Germany
The number of long-term unemployed in Germany has stagnated at around one million for several years. Despite excellent labour market conditions, the long-term unemployment rate is well above the OECD ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015, 4:15)
J31, J38
9133 Wen Fan
Yuanyuan Ma
Liming Wang
Estimating the External Returns to Education: Evidence from China
Using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we examine how individual wages change in line with the share of college graduates in a given province. The individual fixed effect ...
(published in: Asian Economic Papers, 2015, 14 (3), 88-104)
J0, J24, O15
9132 Christophe Jalil Nordman
Leopold Sarr
Smriti Sharma
Cognitive, Non-Cognitive Skills and Gender Wage Gaps: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data in Bangladesh
We use a first-hand linked employer-employee dataset representing the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender wage gaps by the inclusion of measures of cognitive skills and personality traits. ...
(published as 'Skills, Personality Traits and Gender Wage Gaps: Evidence from Bangladesh' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2019, 71(3), 687-708)
J16, J24, J31, J71, C21, O12
9130 Eric A. Hanushek
Jens Ruhose
Ludger Woessmann
Human Capital Quality and Aggregate Income Differences: Development Accounting for U.S. States
Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2017, 9 (4), 184-224)
I25, O47, J24
9129 Moussa Blimpo
Ousman Gajigo
Todd Pugatch
Financial Constraints and Girls' Secondary Education: Evidence from School Fee Elimination in The Gambia
We assess the impact of large-scale fee elimination for secondary school girls in The Gambia on the quantity, composition, and achievement of students. The gradual rollout of the program across ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2019, 33 (1), 185-208)
O15, I21, C93
9128 Noemi Peter
Petter Lundborg
Dinand Webbink
The Effect of a Sibling's Gender on Earnings, Education and Family Formation
We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 54, 61-78)
J00, J24, J16
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