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Absolute Risk Aversion and the Returns to Education
Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
Survey on the Income and Wealth of Italian households. This measure, conditional on financial and real wealth and household … income, is used as an instrument for attained education in a standard log earnings equation. I find that, in line with the …
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The Wage Expectations of European College Students
Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
the results of the first systematic study of the wage expectations of European college students. Our data are based on the … replies to the same questionnaire by more than 6000 college students all over Europe. We study the determinants of wage …-specific micro-data. In line with U.S. studies we find that students overestimate returns to education. …
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Lost in Transition? The Returns to Education Acquired under Communism 15 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Brunello, Giorgio; Crivellaro, Elena; Rocco, Lorenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Using data for 22 economies in Eastern and Western Europe, we find evidence that having studied under communism is relatively penalized in the economies of the late 2000s. This evidence, however, is limited to males and to primary and secondary education, and holds for eight CEE economies but...
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