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School Quality, Labor Markets and Human Capital Investments : Long-Term Impacts of an Early Stage Education Intervention in the Philippines

Yamauchi, Futoshi - 2017

schooling investments and labor market outcomes using unique data from a recent survey that tracked students in the Philippines …. The empirical results, which are based on a comparison of students who graduated from schools located in adjacent …

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Heterogeneous Returns to Education in the Labor Market

Fasih, Tazeen - 2017

Since the development of human capital theory, countless estimates of the economic benefits of investing in education for the individual have been published. While it is a universal fact that in all countries of the world the more education one has the higher his or her earnings, it is...

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Average and Marginal Returns to Upper Secondary Schooling in Indonesia

Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2017

This paper estimates average and marginal returns to schooling in Indonesia using a non-parametric selection model estimated by local instrumental variables, and data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey. The analysis finds that the return to upper secondary schooling varies widely across...

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Why Does the Productivity of Education Vary Across Individuals in Egypt? Firm Size, Gender, and Access to Technology as Sources of Heterogeneity in Returns to Education

Herrera, Santiago - 2017

The paper estimates the rates of return to investment in education in Egypt, allowing for multiple sources of heterogeneity across individuals. The paper finds that, in the period 1998-2006, returns to education increased for workers with higher education, but fell for workers with intermediate...

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Economic Freedom, Human Rights, and the Returns to Human Capital : An Evaluation of the Schultz Hypothesis

King, Elizabeth - 2017

According to T.W. Schultz, the returns to human capital are highest in economic environments experiencing unexpected price, productivity, and technology shocks that create "disequilibria." In such environments, the ability of firms and individuals to adapt their resource allocations to shocks...

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International Competition, Returns to Skill, and Labor Market Adjustment

Falvey, Rod - 2018

Does increased import competition lead to higher returns to skill within an industry and, therefore, to greater incentives for skill acquisition? Does it also induce skill upgrading by the industry?s existing workforce? To answer these questions, this paper follows individual workers across...

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Employment Structure and Returns to Skill in Vietnam : Estimates Using the Labor Force Survey

Demombynes, Gabriel - 2018

This paper uses Labor Force Survey data to assess key aspects of the labor market in Vietnam over 2007-14. The analysis finds large growth in wage employment in the foreign-owned and domestic private sectors. However, the state sector remains a major employer, particularly for workers with...

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A Primer on Human Capital

Flabbi, Luca - 2018

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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School Effects and Costs for Private and Public Schools in the Dominican Republic

Lanjouw, Jean O. - 2017

selection, it found that students in eighth grade mathematics achieve more in both types of private school than they do in … practices account for some of this difference in achievement, but differences in the students' peer background characteristics …

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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Education, and Returns to Schooling in Urban China

Giles, John - 2016

graduates instead of the high unobserved ability of students who choose to attend post-secondary education. To this end, the … experienced greater disruptions, children's educational attainment became less correlated with that of their fathers and more … selection of high-ability students into higher education. The analysis also demonstrates that these results are unlikely to be …

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