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Educational attainment

About: Educational attainment is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 15760 publications have been published within this topic receiving 488939 citations.


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TL;DR: In this paper, a Gaussian process classifier was used to estimate the probability of computerisation for 702 detailed occupations, and the expected impacts of future computerisation on US labour market outcomes, with the primary objective of analyzing the number of jobs at risk and the relationship between an occupations probability of computing, wages and educational attainment.

4,853 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a data set that improves the measurement of educational attainment for a broad group of countries, and extended their previous estimates for the population over age 15 and over age 25 up to 1995 and provided projections for 2000.
Abstract: This paper presents a data set that improves the measurement of educational attainment for a broad group of countries. We extend our previous estimates of educational attainment for the population over age 15 and over age 25 up to 1995 and provide projections for 2000. We discuss the estimation method for the measures of educational attainment and relate our estimates to alternative international measures of human capital stocks.

3,763 citations

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TL;DR: Theories and models of student change in college are discussed in this paper, with an emphasis on the development of Verbal, Quantitative, and Subject Matter Competence, and Cognitive Skills and Intellectual Growth.
Abstract: Foreword 1. Studying College Outcomes: Overview and Organization of the Research 2. Theories and Models of Student Change in College 3. Development of Verbal, Quantitative, and Subject Matter Competence 4. Cognitive Skills and Intellectual Growth 5. Psychosocial Changes: Identity, Selt--Concept, and Self--Esteem 6. Psycholsocial Changes: Relating to Others and the External World 7. Attitudes and Values 8. Moral Development 9. Educational Attainment 10. Career Choice and Development 11. Economic Benefits of College 12. Quality of Life After College 13. How College Makes a Difference: A Summary 14. Implications of the Research for Policy and Practice AppAndix: Methodological and Analytical Issues in Assessing the Influence of College

2,687 citations

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TL;DR: Barro and Lee as mentioned in this paper used information from consistent census data, disaggregated by age group, along with new estimates of mortality rates and completion rates by age and education level.

2,641 citations

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TL;DR: This paper found that the season of birth is related to educational attainment and earnings, and that roughly 25 percent of potential dropouts remain in school because of compulsory schooling laws. But, they did not study the effect of compulsory attendance laws on educational attainment.
Abstract: We establish that season of birth is related to educational attainment because of school start age policy and compulsory school attendance laws. Individuals born in the beginning of the year start school at an older age, and can therefore drop out after completing less schooling than individuals born near the end of the year. Roughly 25 percent of potential dropouts remain in school because of compulsory schooling laws. We estimate the impact of compulsory schooling on earnings by using quarter of birth as an instrument for education. The instrumental variables estimate of the return to education is close to the ordinary least squares estimate, suggesting that there is little bias in conventional estimates. Every developed country in the world has a compulsory schooling requirement, yet little is known about the effect these laws have on educational attainment and earnings.1 This paper exploits an unusual natural experiment to estimate the impact of compulsory schooling laws in the United States. The experiment stems from the fact that children born in different months of the year start school at different ages, while compulsory schooling laws generally require students to remain in school until their sixteenth or seventeenth birthday. In effect, the interaction of school-entry requirements and compulsory schooling laws compel students born

2,475 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023449
20221,011
2021584
2020781
2019868
2018816