Sökning: "noncognitive ability"

Hittade 3 avhandlingar innehållade orden noncognitive ability.

  1. 1. Essays on Educational Choice and Intergenerational Mobility

    Författare :Martin Nybom; Anders Björklund; Markus Jäntti; Mikael Lindahl; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; educational choice; treatment effect heterogeneity; returns to college; noncognitive ability; intergenerational income mobility; life-cycle bias; time trends; cross-country differences; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four self-contained essays. The first essay concerns educational choice and the returns to college in Sweden. I apply a recently introduced econometric framework that allows for self selection and treatment effect heterogeneity. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Education, skills and gender : The impact of a grading reform and the business cycle on labor market outcomes

    Författare :Charlotta Boström; Anne Boschini; Helena Svaleryd; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; education; labor market; recessions; gender; ability; earnings; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of three self-contained essays in economics, all concerned with different aspects of education and labor market outcomes. The abstracts of the three studies are as follows.A flight of hurdles? Effects on graduation and long-term labor market outcomes of a nationwide grading reform. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Essays on Public, Political and Labor Economics

    Författare :David Seim; Torsten Persson; Henrik Kleven; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Public Economics; Political Economics; Labor Economics; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis contains four essays.The first paper, "Real or Evasion Responses to the Wealth Tax? Theory and Evidence from Sweden", addresses the behavioral effects of an annual wealth tax. I use Swedish tax records over the period 1999-2006 and two sources of variation in the tax rate to estimate the elasticity of taxable net wealth at about 0.3. LÄS MER