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作者：Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Schurer, Stefanie
作者单位：University of Melbourne; Victoria University Wellington
摘要：Empirical studies of non-cognitive skills often rely on the assumption that these skills are stable over time. We analyse the change in a specific non-cognitive skill, that is locus of control, to assess the validity of this assumption directly. We find that short- and medium-run changes in locus of control are modest on average, are concentrated among the young or very old, are unlikely to be economically meaningful and are not related to demographic, labour market and health events. Still, t...
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作者：Card, David
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; National Bureau of Economic Research
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作者：Geay, Charlotte; McNally, Sandra; Telhaj, Shqiponja
作者单位：Institut Polytechnique de Paris; ENSAE Paris; University of Surrey; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of Sussex
摘要：There has been an increase in the number of children going to school in England who do not speak English as a first language. We investigate whether this has an impact on the educational outcomes of native English speakers at the end of primary school. We show that the negative correlation observed in the raw data is mainly an artefact of selection: non-native speakers are more likely to attend school with disadvantaged native speakers. We attempt to identify a causal impact of changes in the ...
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作者：Clots-Figueras, Irma; Masella, Paolo
作者单位：Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; University of Sussex
摘要：The process of individual identity formation is still an enigma, as is the capacity of public bodies to intervene in it. In 1983, the Catalan education system became bilingual, and Catalan, along with Spanish, was taught in schools. Using survey data from Catalonia we show that respondents who have been exposed for a longer time period to teaching in Catalan have stronger Catalan feelings. The effect also appears to be present among individuals whose parents do not have Catalan origins; in add...
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作者：Imbens, Guido
作者单位：Stanford University; National Bureau of Economic Research
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作者：Ohinata, Asako; van Ours, Jan C.
作者单位：Tilburg University; University of Melbourne
摘要：In this article, we analyse how the share of immigrant children in the classroom affects the educational attainment of native Dutch children. Our analysis uses data from various sources, which allow us to characterise educational attainment in terms of reading literacy, mathematical skills and science skills. Our results suggest that Dutch students face a worse learning environment when they are studying with more immigrant students in the classroom. However, we do not find strong evidence of ...
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作者：Sgroi, Daniel; Oswald, Andrew J.
作者单位：University of Warwick
摘要：Many governments wish to assess the quality of their universities. A prominent example is the UK's new Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014. In the REF, peer-review panels will be provided with information on publications and citations. This article suggests a way in which panels could choose the weights to attach to these two indicators. The analysis draws in an intuitive way on the concept of Bayesian updating (where citations gradually reveal information about the initially imperfectly ...
