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Direct linkNadja Bömmel; Guido Heineck – Education Economics, 2023
Many studies suggest a relationship between education and political participation, but only some address causality. We add to this by re-examining the German case. For identification, we exploit an exogenous increase in compulsory schooling, and use data from the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS). The data enable analyses that do not rely…
Descriptors: Correlation, Educational Attainment, Political Attitudes, Attribution Theory
Lazareva, Olga; Zakharov, Andrei – Education Economics, 2020
In this study, we test how the level of relative teacher wages affects educational outcomes. Russia provides a unique setting for testing this relationship given its high regional heterogeneity. We use two measures of educational outcomes at different levels of the school system. Our results show that the level of relative teacher wages has a…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Outcomes of Education, Scores, Educational Change
Carmichael, Fiona; Darko, Christian; Kanji, Shireen – Education Economics, 2021
Education is key to development strategies in Africa. We use overeducation and undereducation to analyse the effectiveness of education in preparing individuals for employment in Kenya and Ghana, using the Skills Towards Employment and Productivity Survey. Systematic differences in wages between matched, overeducated and undereducated workers hold…
Descriptors: Salary Wage Differentials, Job Search Methods, Social Networks, Foreign Countries
Simo Fotso, Arlette; Solaz, Anne; Diene, Mbaye; Tsafack Nanfosso, Roger – Education Economics, 2018
Although most of the world's disabled people live in developing countries, little is known about the consequences of disability in this part of the world. Using the DHS-MICS 2011 data of Cameroon, this paper contributes to the literature by providing new robust estimates of the effect of child disability on education in a developing country…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Capital, Children, Disabilities
Jakobsson, Niklas; Persson, Mattias; Svensson, Mikael – Education Economics, 2013
This paper analyzes whether class size has an effect on the prevalence of mental health problems and well-being among adolescents in Swedish schools. We use cross-sectional data collected in year 2008 covering 2755 Swedish adolescents in ninth grade from 40 schools and 159 classes. We utilize different econometric approaches to address potential…
Descriptors: Well Being, Mental Health, Adolescents, Incidence
Trostel, Philip; Walker, Ian – Education Economics, 2006
This paper examines the relationship between the incentives to work and to invest in human capital through education in a lifecycle optimizing model. These incentives are shown to be mutually reinforcing in a simple stylized model. This theoretical prediction is investigated empirically using three large micro datasets covering a broad range of…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Incentives, Human Capital, Models
