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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8623 Stephan L. Thomsen
Friederike von Haaren
Did Tuition Fees in Germany Constrain Students' Budgets? New Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Less than a decade ago, several German states introduced tuition fees for university education. Despite their comparatively low level, fees were perceived by the public to increase social injustice, ...
(revised version published in: IZA Journal or European Labor Studies, 2016, 5:6)
I22, I28, H75
8622 Mehtabul Azam
Geeta G. Kingdon
Assessing Teacher Quality in India
Using administrative data from linked private schools from one of districts in India that matches 8,319 pupils to their subject specific teachers at the senior secondary level, we estimate the ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2015, 117, 74–83)
I21, O15
8621 Todd Pugatch
Elizabeth Schroeder
Teacher Pay and Student Performance: Evidence from the Gambian Hardship Allowance
We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school teachers in remote locations, on student performance. A geographic discontinuity ...
(published in: Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2018, 10(2): 249-276.)
I25, I28, J38, J45, O12, O15
8620 Nicholas Bloom
Renata Lemos
Raffaella Sadun
John Van Reenen
Does Management Matter in Schools?
We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (584), 647-674)
L2, M2, I2
8618 Audrey Light
Andrew McGee
Does Employer Learning Vary by Schooling Attainment? The Answer Depends on How Career Start Dates Are Defined
We demonstrate that empirical evidence of employer learning is sensitive to how one defines the career start date and, in turn, measures cumulative work experience. Arcidiacono, Bayer, and Hizmo ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 32, 57-66)
I21, J24, J31
8617 Damon Clark
Emilia Del Bono
The Long-Run Effects of Attending an Elite School: Evidence from the UK
This paper estimates the impact of elite school attendance on long-run outcomes including completed education, income and fertility. Our data consists of individuals born in the 1950s and educated in ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016, 8 (1), 150-176)
I2, J24, C31, C36
8616 John V. Winters
Estimating the Returns to Schooling Using Cohort-Level Maternal Education as an Instrument
Formal education is widely thought to be a major determinant of individual earnings. This paper uses the American Community Survey to examine the effect of formal schooling on worker wages. Given the ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 126 (1), 25-27)
J24, J31
8615 Cheti Nicoletti
Birgitta Rabe
Sibling Spillover Effects in School Achievement
We provide the first empirical evidence on direct sibling spillover effects in school achievement using English administrative data. Our identification strategy exploits the variation in school test ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2019, 34 (4), 482-501)
I22, I24
8614 Delia Furtado
Can Immigrants Help Women "Have it All"? Immigrant Labor and Women's Joint Fertility and Labor Supply Decisions
This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2015, 4 (19))
D10, F22, J13, J22, R23
8613 Javier García-Manglano
Natalia Nollenberger
Almudena Sevilla
Gender, Time-Use, and Fertility Recovery in Industrialized Countries
This paper explores gendered patterns of time use as an explanatory factor behind fertility trends in the developed world. We review the theoretical foundations for this link, and assess the existing ...
(published in: International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition, 2015)
J1, J11, J13
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