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Do They Understand the Benefits from Education? Evidence on Dutch High School Students' Earnings Expectations

Mazza, Jacopo - 2011

students possess before their decision on tertiary education participation. The sample is prone to selective participation and …

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Is Earnings Uncertainty Relevant for Educational Choice? An Empirical Analysis for China

Hartog, Joop - 2011

We use the method of Dominitz and Manski (1996) to solicit anticipated wage distributions for continuing to a Master degree or going to work after completing the Bachelor degree. The means of the distributions have an effect on intention to continue as predicted by theory. The dispersions in...

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Covid-19 and Educational Inequality : How School Closures Affect Low- and High-Achieving Students

Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2021

-achieving students. The reduction in learning time was not larger for children from lower-educated parents, but it was larger for boys … collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We …

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Do Wage Expectations Influence the Decision to Enroll in Nursing College?

Schweri, Juerg - 2015

As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage …. This suggests that policies that increase returns from studying nursing can attract students to nursing. In addition, the …

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Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2009

We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking...

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Vocational High School Graduate Wage Gap : The Role of Cognitive Skills and Firms

Hartog, Joop - 2018

Comparing cohorts born between 1951 and 1994, we document and interpret changes in the wage differential among graduates from secondary education with a vocational and a general curriculum. The wage gap initially increased and then decreased. We find that these changes cannot be attributed to...

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Coping with Change : International Differences in the Returns to Skills

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2016

Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have...

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Returns to Education : The Causal Effects of Education on Earnings, Health and Smoking

Heckman, James J. - 2016

This paper estimates returns to education using a dynamic model of educational choice that synthesizes approaches in the structural dynamic discrete choice literature with approaches used in the reduced form treatment effect literature. It is an empirically robust middle ground between the two...

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The Non-Market Benefits of Education and Ability

Heckman, James J. - 2017

This paper analyzes the non-market benefits of education and ability. Using a dynamic model of educational choice we estimate returns to education that account for selection bias and sorting on gains. We investigate a range of non-market outcomes including incarceration, mental health, voter...

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Unobserved Heterogeneity and Risk in Wage Variance : Does Schooling Provide Earnings Insurance?

Mazza, Jacopo - 2011

We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We replicate the original study on US men and extend to US women, UK men and German men. Most original results are not robust. A college education cannot universally be considered an...

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