{"title":"Does the labour market value field of study specific knowledge? An alignment score based approach","authors":"Nick Manuel","doi":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102561","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102561","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Using a sample of bachelor degree holders from the Canadian Census, this paper estimates the earnings premium that a university graduate receives from working in an occupation that requires knowledge that is related to their field of study. This is accomplished by developing an alignment score which measures the similarity between the knowledge requirements of an individual’s actual occupation, and the knowledge requirements of the occupations that their field of study trains individuals for. While controlling for field of study and occupation fixed effects, the results indicate that a one standard deviation improvement in the knowledge-alignment between one’s occupation and field of study produces an earnings premium of approximately 4.3%. This indicates that well-aligned graduates earn more than graduates from the same field of study who work in otherwise similar paying occupations that are less closely aligned with the field of study.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48261,"journal":{"name":"Economics of Education Review","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 102561"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272775724000554/pdfft?md5=fb74ff63121e37492a61490d846bb2c2&pid=1-s2.0-S0272775724000554-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141623137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jeanne Lafortune , Todd Pugatch , José Tessada , Diego Ubfal
{"title":"Can gamified online training make high school students more entrepreneurial? Experimental evidence from Rwanda","authors":"Jeanne Lafortune , Todd Pugatch , José Tessada , Diego Ubfal","doi":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102559","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We study the short-run effects of a gamified online entrepreneurship training offered to high school students in Rwanda during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a randomized controlled trial, we estimate sizeable effects of the 6-week training on entrepreneurial activity. One month after the training, participants in schools offered the training were much more likely to own a business than participants in control schools. The training induced students to participate more actively in their school’s business club, to undertake more business-oriented actions, to improve their business practices, and to interact more with other youth and family members about their business ideas. We hypothesize that the training motivated treated students to sustain their business activities during the COVID-19 crisis.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48261,"journal":{"name":"Economics of Education Review","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 102559"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141481705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effects of teacher tenure on productivity and selection","authors":"Kevin Ng","doi":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102558","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>I examine productivity and selection effects of K-12 teacher tenure by leveraging variation from New Jersey’s TEACHNJ Act, which extended the pretenure period. Using a difference-in-differences design, I evaluate the productivity effects of tenure by comparing fourth-year tenured and pretenured teachers. I find math value-added declines but English language arts value-added and ratings remain unchanged. Focusing on labor market effects, I compare teachers hired before and after TEACHNJ within the same district and experience level. TEACHNJ disproportionately increased male and Black teacher turnover, as the policy was tied to subjective evaluation criteria. TEACHNJ did not impact the quality of the teacher labor market as measured by value-added, though higher rated teachers often filled new vacancies. This matches principal–agent models where schools only use ratings to guide personnel decisions. Overall, tenure generates small declines in math value-added, while reforms tied to subjective evaluations disproportionately increase male and Black teacher turnover.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48261,"journal":{"name":"Economics of Education Review","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 102558"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141314914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Childcare and parenting in the production of early life skills","authors":"Sebastián Gallegos , Jorge Luis García","doi":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102557","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We use data from a randomized early childhood education program to estimate the production technology of early life skills. Estimates indicate that, for more disadvantaged children, parental investment is a more effective input for producing skills than childcare. The reverse is true for the more advantaged. The program increases childcare for all children; it increases parental investment for the more disadvantaged. Therefore, our results indicate that programs stimulating parental investment promote mobility across the distribution of early life skills. We thus micro-found recent studies showing that successful early childhood education programs foster parental investment on top of offering high-quality childcare.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48261,"journal":{"name":"Economics of Education Review","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 102557"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272775724000517/pdfft?md5=d30ecc6f2e05114c6ce7f0c4daa440a3&pid=1-s2.0-S0272775724000517-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141294415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does replacing grants by income-contingent loans harm enrolment? New evidence from a reform in Dutch higher education","authors":"Jonneke Bolhaar , Sonny Kuijpers , Dinand Webbink , Maria Zumbuehl","doi":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102546","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper evaluates the impact of a reform which replaced universal basic grants by income-contingent loans on enrolment in Dutch higher education using administrative data of ten complete student cohorts. Estimates of differences between cohorts show no negative effect of the policy on enrolment. Moreover, difference-in-differences estimates exploiting variation in eligibility for supplementary grants show no negative effect on enrolment. These findings suggest that a system of income-contingent loans can facilitate an increase of private contributions without harming access to higher education.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48261,"journal":{"name":"Economics of Education Review","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 102546"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272775724000402/pdfft?md5=a6ea4b13b16f5b939c3d8757df6d5cff&pid=1-s2.0-S0272775724000402-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141244407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fidele Eric Sessou , Melissa Hidrobo , Shalini Roy , Lieven Huybregts
{"title":"Educational impacts of an unconditional cash transfer program in Mali","authors":"Fidele Eric Sessou , Melissa Hidrobo , Shalini Roy , Lieven Huybregts","doi":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102547","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102547","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In rural West Africa, the rate of out-of-school children is high and delayed entry to primary school is common, particularly for girls. Using the randomized roll-out of a large-scale unconditional cash transfer program in Mali, we examine its impact on child schooling by age and sex. The program leads to significant improvements in schooling outcomes for girls, but not boys. Improvements are especially salient among younger (ages 6–9) and older (ages 15–18) girls. Complementary analysis reveals that the program reduces the time younger girls spend in agricultural work at home and the time older girls spend in domestic work as well as self-employment. Households in the program also spend more on education for older girls in terms of school fees, materials, and transport.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48261,"journal":{"name":"Economics of Education Review","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 102547"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141166164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The rank of socioeconomic status within a class and the incidence of school bullying and school absence","authors":"Atsushi Inoue , Ryuichi Tanaka","doi":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102545","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this study, we examine the impact of a student's household socioeconomic status (SES) rank within a class on two critical factors affecting the accumulation of human capital: school bullying victimization and school absence. We identify the effect from the variation of a within-class SES rank of students assigned to different schools and classes, controlling the absolute level of SES and class fixed effects. Using the data from middle-school students in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), we find that, although the absolute level of SES is negatively associated with these incidences, students with a high SES rank within a class are more likely to be the victims of school bullying and to be absent from school. We confirm that these results are robust when the sample is restricted to schools where students' assignment to classes is as good as random.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48261,"journal":{"name":"Economics of Education Review","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 102545"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272775724000396/pdfft?md5=1b915c2e8d2a233e117001ebf8f6ebda&pid=1-s2.0-S0272775724000396-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141073317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The UK Disability Discrimination Act 2005: Consequences for the education and employment of older children","authors":"Marco G. Ercolani , Emiliya Lazarova","doi":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102544","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We investigate the impact of the 2005 UK Disability Discrimination Act on the educational and employment outcomes for older children with disabilities, using data from the UK Labour Force Surveys. The Act established new legal requirements on employers and qualification awarding bodies to accommodate individuals with disabilities. Furthermore, prior to 2013 children in England and Wales could leave education at age 16, providing a unique opportunity to analyse the 2005 Act's influence on their educational and employment outcomes. Compared to children without disabilities, we found the 2005 Act reduced the likelihood of continuing in education and increased the likelihood of entering the labour market (employed or unemployed) for children meeting both the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act definition of disability and who were reported as work-limited. We also ‘decompose’ average outcomes between children's groups, identifying effects attributable to observable characteristics, discrimination, and unobservable health-related productivity gaps.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48261,"journal":{"name":"Economics of Education Review","volume":"100 ","pages":"Article 102544"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272775724000384/pdfft?md5=671e41d678b31b6a03d9e0f91d1d8816&pid=1-s2.0-S0272775724000384-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140914458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does instructional time at school influence study time at university? Evidence from an instructional time reform","authors":"Jakob Schwerter , Nicolai Netz , Nicolas Hübner","doi":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102526","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Early-life environments can have long-lasting effects on individuals’ later life courses. Interestingly, research on the effects of school reforms has hardly adopted this perspective. Therefore, we investigate a staggered school reform that reduced the number of school years and increased weekly instructional time for secondary school students in most German federal states. We analyze this quasi-experiment in a difference-in-differences framework using nationally representative large-scale survey data on 69,513 students who attended university between 1998 and 2016. Using both TWFE and weighted-group ATT estimators, we find negative effects of reform exposure on hours spent attending classes and on self-study. Moreover, reform exposure increased the time gap between school completion and higher education entry. Our results support the view that research should examine unintended long-term effects of school reforms on individual life courses.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48261,"journal":{"name":"Economics of Education Review","volume":"100 ","pages":"Article 102526"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272775724000207/pdfft?md5=3b8caa3841a4ae187ccfa8e2eb5015f2&pid=1-s2.0-S0272775724000207-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140901216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preschool and child health: Evidence from China's universal child care reform","authors":"Meiqing Ren","doi":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102540","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Early childhood education programs have been found to effectively promote children's social and cognitive development. However, the health impact of these programs is less understood. Using a quasi-experiment of the first universal child care reform in China from 2010, this paper aims to identify whether the preschool reform produces any short-term effects on health-related outcomes of preschoolers (3-6 years old). Specifically, this reform expands access to affordable preschools that provide full-day center-based education, with school meals and essential health services on campus. I exploit the variation in the number of newly established preschools across provinces and implement difference-in-differences and triple-difference strategies. Results confirm the effectiveness of this reform by showing a strong and positive impact on preschool attendance. This paper then documents the benefits to alleviating underweight among preschoolers. Estimates show a larger effect in rural areas, suggesting that the reform narrows rural-urban disparities in education access and undernutrition prevention. I also explore the impact on caregivers’ health consciousness and find improved health-seeking behavior when children get sick.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48261,"journal":{"name":"Economics of Education Review","volume":"100 ","pages":"Article 102540"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272775724000347/pdfft?md5=13cf0b15fb738ccebcbd0bfdc74508cc&pid=1-s2.0-S0272775724000347-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140893891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}