38 research outputs found
Identifying Students Struggling in Courses by Analyzing Exam Grades, Self-reported Measures and Study Activities
Time allocation during higher education: A study of Brazilian, French, and Spanish students
International Assessment Surveys of Educational Achievement in Developing Countries: Why Education Economists Should Care
Rendimiento Acaddmico: Quu Papel Juegan Los Factores Institucionales? (Academic Achievement: Which Role Plays the Institutional Factors?)
Diploma Effects by Gender in the Spanish Labour Market
The aim of this paper is to contrast the nature of the schooling effect on earnings in the Spanish labour market in terms of gender. Hungerford and Solon's (Review of Economics and Statistics 69: 175-177, 1987) methodology is used to distinguish between the returns to schooling arising from mere years of schooling as a reflection of their productivity-enhancing contribution (human capital) and the returns to schooling arising from certificates (diploma effects) as signals of the individual's productivity (sheepskin effects) or as credentialism. The results show evidence only of diploma effects in Upper Secondary Studies for men. Copyright 2006 The Author; Journal compilation 2006 CEIS, Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini and Blackwell Publishing Ltd..