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The impact of compulsory schooling laws as well as the abolition of early selection by ability remain important issues in the educational debate. These issues were the focus of a major education reform in Sweden which was implemented in the 60s. The reform was preceded by a social experiment in...
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human capital and income growth. Rather than completeness, the objective of this work is to distill some of the most … (sections 2, 3 and 4). The note then reviews the micro empirical literature estimating labor income returns of human capital …
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Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...
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that is better suited to evaluate the program. We find that the program has a positive effect on the enrollment of children … neutral change in the program that would increase the grant for secondary school children while eliminating for the primary … school children would have a substantially larger effect on enrollment of the latter, while having minor effects on the …
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