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Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Rivera-Olvera, Angelica - 2025

This paper presents the first analysis for Arkansas using 2024 CPS data to examine education's impact on earnings and returns to investment. Average returns are 7.7%, higher for women (9%). University education yields even more: 8.8% overall, 8.1% for men, and 10.8% for women. With full...

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Education quality, green technology, and the economic impact of carbon pricing

Macdonald, Kevin; Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2021

Carbon pricing is increasingly used by governments to reduce emissions. The effect of carbon pricing on economic outcomes as well as mitigating factors has been studied extensively since the early 1990s. One mitigating factor that has received less attention is education quality. If...

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The effect of raising school quality on earnings

Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Psacharopoulos, George - 2025

The evidence underscores the need to shift attention from school attainment to actual learning. While the average global return to an additional year of schooling is about 10 percent, a one standard deviation increase in test scores raises earnings by 15 percent. Studies show that including...

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The learning crisis : three years after covid-19

Gajderowicz, Tomasz; Jakubowski, Maciej; Kennedy, Alec; … - 2024

children. These closures, aimed at reducing virus transmission, resulted in significant learning losses, particularly in …

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Returns to investment in education : the case of Turkey

Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Psacharopoulos, George; … - 2019

and a social return of 10 percent. Using the number of children younger than age 15 in the household as an exclusion …

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Returns to education in the Russian Federation : some new estimates

Melianova, Ekaterina; Parandekar, Suhas; Patrinos, … - 2020

This paper presents new estimates of the returns to education in the Russian Federation using data from 1994 to 2018. Although the returns to schooling increased for a time, they are now much lower than the global average. Private returns to education are three times greater for higher education...

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The learning crisis in the United States three years after Covid-19

Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Jakubowski, Maciej; … - 2025

children. These closures, aimed at reducing virus transmission, resulted in significant learning losses, particularly in … average decline in mathematics performance among U.S. students is substantially greater than the global average. n science …, the decline observed among U.S. students does not significantly differ from the global trend. Girls experienced greater …

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Returns to education in the public and private sectors : Europe and Central Asia

Montenegro, Claudio M.; Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2022

The returns to schooling are estimated for 28 European and Central Asian countries using the Mincerian function. Our results show that while the public sector pays on average more than the private sector, the effect of education on earnings is stronger in the private sector. However, the returns...

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The returns to education over time and the effect of COVID-19

Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Rivera-Olvera, Angelica - 2024

This paper examines the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the returns to education in the United States. Using data from the Current Population Survey 2011-2022, the analysis reveals that, after a period of decline, returns to education increased significantly because of COVID, particularly...

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Lost wages : the COVID-19 cost of school closures

Psacharopoulos, George; Collis, Victoria; Patrinos, … - 2020

long-lasting impact on the earnings of future workers. It is also likely that students from low-income countries will be … universities, affecting more than 90 percent of the world’s learners: 1.5 billion children and young people. The closures are …

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