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Parental Risk Attitudes and Children's Secondary School Track Choice
Heineck, Guido - 2010
It is well known that individuals' risk attitudes are related to behavioral outcomes such as smoking, portfolio decisions, and also educational attainment, but there is barely any evidence on whether parental risk attitudes affect the educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this...
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Occupational Sorting of School Graduates : The Role of Economic Preferences
Fouarge, Didier - 2014
We relate risk attitudes and patience of young graduates from high-school, college and university, measured around the …
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Risky Choices and Solidarity : Why Experimental Design Matters
Wunsch, Conny - 2018
Negative income shocks can either be the consequence of risky choices or random events. A growing literature analyzes the role of responsibility for neediness for informal financial support of individuals facing negative income shocks based on randomized experiments. In this paper, we show that...
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The Production and Stock of College Graduates for U.S. States
Winters, John V. - 2014
educated workers are often quite mobile and there is a concern that public investments in college graduates may not benefit the … state if the college graduates leave the state after finishing their education. This paper examines the relationship between … the production of college graduates from a state and the stock of college graduates residing in the state using microdata …
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Mind the Gap : Net Incomes of Minimum Wage Workers in the EU and the US
Marx, Ive - 2012
This paper focuses on the role of minimum wages, tax and benefit policies in protecting workers against financial poverty, covering 21 European countries with a national minimum wage and three US States (New Jersey, Nebraska and Texas). It is shown that only for single persons and only in a...
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School Tracking and Mental Health
Bockerman, Petri - 2019
We examine the effects of a comprehensive school reform on mental health. The reform postponed the tracking of students into vocational and academic schools from age 11 to age 16. The reform was implemented gradually across Finnish municipalities between 1972 and 1977. We use...
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The Impact of High School Financial Education on Financial Knowledge and Choices : Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Spain
Bover, Olympia - 2018
We conducted a randomized controlled trial where 3,000 9th grade students coming from 78 high schools received a financial education course at different points of the year. Right after the treatment, test performance increased by 16% of one standard deviation, treated youths were more likely to...
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The Effects of Supply Shocks in the Market for Apprenticeships : Evidence from a German High School Reform
Muehlemann, Samuel - 2018
immediately absorbed the additional supply of high school graduates in the apprenticeship market. No evidence is found for …
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Teacher Allocation and School Performance in Italy
Bryson, Alex - 2020
Italy's secondary school system has faced funding constraints for many years which limits availability of new permanent job slots for teachers. When permanent posts do arise they are allocated mostly on seniority while merit only plays a small role. Thus, the age distribution of teachers in...
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Class Rank and Long-Run Outcomes
Denning, Jeffrey - 2018
This paper considers a fundamental question about the school environment – what are the long run effects of a student's ordinal rank in elementary school? Using administrative data from all public school students in Texas, we show that students with a higher third grade academic rank,...
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