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Saavedra, Juan Esteban – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Chapter 1 examines the effects of college quality on students' learning, employment and earnings in Colombia. Scores on a national college "entry" test solely determine admission to many selective Colombian universities, creating exogenous peer and resource quality variation near admission cutoffs. In one regression discontinuity (RD)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Productivity, Vocational Schools
Marcenaro-Gutierrez, Oscar; Vignoles, Anna; De Coulon, Augustin – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2007
In this paper we evaluate the labour market value of basic skills in the UK, focusing on the wage and employment returns to having better literacy and numeracy skills. We draw on literacy and numeracy assessments undertaken by all cohort members of the UK 1970 British Cohort Study. The data used are very rich and allow us to account for potential…
Descriptors: Cohort Analysis, Numeracy, Labor Market, Basic Skills