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The wage expectations of European college students

Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 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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The effect of education policy on crime : an intergenerational perspective

Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Schnabel, Marieke - 2011

as labor earnings of the children who went through the post reform school system, in particular for individuals … the generation directly affected by the reform as well as their children. We use census data on all born in Sweden between … 1945 and 1955 and all their children merged with individual register data on all convictions between 1981 and 2008. We find …

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Inference for ranks with applications to mobility across neighborhoods and academic achievement across countries

Mogstad, Magne; Romano, Joseph P.; Wilhelm, Daniel; … - 2020

It is often desired to rank different populations according to the value of some feature of each population. For example, it may be desired to rank neighborhoods according to some measure of intergenerational mobility or countries according to some measure of academic achievement. These rankings...

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The effect of school quality on educational attainment and wages

Dearden, Lorraine (contributor); Ferri, Javier (contributor) - 2000 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Returns to apprenticeship training in Austria : evidence from failed firms

Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, … - 2007

Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS estimates suggest that the returns are similar to those of other types of schooling. However, there is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and...

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Inference for ranks with applications to mobility across neighborhoods and academic achievement across countries

Mogstad, Magne; Romano, Joseph P.; Shaikh, Azeem M.; … - 2022

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Inference for ranks with applications to mobility across neighborhoods and academic achievement across countries

Mogstad, Magne; Romano, Joseph P.; Shaikh, Azeem M.; … - 2021

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Inference for ranks with applications to mobility across neighborhoods and academic achievement across countries

Mogstad, Magne; Romano, Joseph P.; Shaikh, Azeem M.; … - 2023

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Smoking, discount rates, and returns to education

Fersterer, Josef; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2000

Individual time preference determines schooling enrolment. Moreover, smoking behavior in early ages has been shown to be highly related to time preference rates. Accordingly, we use smoking at age 16 as an instrument for schooling in order to cope with ability bias in a returns to education...

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Assessing the effect of schooling on earnings using a social experiment

Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten - 1999

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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