Getting Lucky: The Long-Term Consequences of Exam Luck
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- Fanny Landaud & Eric Maurin & Barton Willage & Alexander Willén, 2023. "Getting Lucky: The Long-Term Consequences of Exam Luck," Working Papers hal-04322121, HAL.
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Keywords
luck; fairness; wage differentials; returns to education; high-stakes exams;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- H52 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Education
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions
- I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
- I26 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Returns to Education
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2022-05-02 (Education)
- NEP-EUR-2022-05-02 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-URE-2022-05-02 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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