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Benefits to elite schools and the formation of expected returns to education: Evidence from Mexico City

Estrada, Ricardo; Gignoux, Jérémie - HAL - 2014

We study the effects of admission into elite public high schools in Mexico City on students' expected earnings, arguing …-based allocation of students into schools and an adapted regression discontinuity design strategy, we find that admission substantially … increases learning achievement, and also the future earnings and returns students expect from a college education, but no effect …

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Regional Variation of Returns to Education

Backman, Mikaela - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

Returns to education are mainly influenced by the characteristics of the individual. However, returns are also likely to depend on location characteristics. Thus, there are different location premiums for educational attainment. This paper analyse the regional variation of returns to education...

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Analyzing Zero Returns to Education in Germany – Heterogeneous Eff ects and Skill Formation

Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Schmitz, Hendrik - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2013

We analyze the effect of education on wages using German Socio-Economic Panel data and regional variation in mandatory years of schooling and the supply of schools. This allows us to estimate more than one local average treatment effect and heterogeneous effects for different groups of...

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Linear instrumental variables model averaging estimation

Martins, Luis F.; Gabriel, Vasco J. - In: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 71 (2014) C, pp. 709-724

Model averaging (MA) estimators in the linear instrumental variables regression framework are considered. The obtaining of weights for averaging across individual estimates by direct smoothing of selection criteria arising from the estimation stage is proposed. This is particularly relevant in...

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Education and Labour Market Outcomes in Sub-Saharan West Africa

Kuépié, Mathias; Nordman, Christophe Jalil; Roubaud, … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2006

The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of education on urban labour market participation and earnings in seven major West African cities. Our results show that although education does not always guard against unemployment, it does increase individual earnings in Abidjan, Bamako,...

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The health returns to schooling—what can we learn from twins?

Lundborg, Petter - In: Journal of Population Economics 26 (2013) 2, pp. 673-701

This paper estimates the health returns to schooling, using a twin design. For this purpose, I use data on monozygotic twins from the Midlife in the United States survey. The results suggest that completing high school improves health, as measured through self-reported health, chronic...

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Regionale Bildungsrenditen und weitere Disparitäten in Deutschland

Reilich, Julia - In: Review of Regional Research 33 (2013) 1, pp. 49-72

Estimating a return to education für Germany as a whole gives one return on human capital on average. This article extends the existing literature using a regional perspective. On a federal-state-level the regional returns are estimable. Therefore the dataset is separated due to regional...

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Education and allocation of skills in Tunisia: evidence from an education reform

Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Pellicer, Miquel - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013) 1, pp. 1-21

instrument probably affected the academically weaker students this pattern of results suggests that the public sector might …

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Returns to education in professional football

Böheim, René; Lackner, Mario - In: Economics Letters 114 (2012) 3, pp. 326-328

After three years in college, football players face a trade-off between spending more time in college and pursuing a career in the National Football League (NFL). We analyze the salaries for rookies in the NFL and instrument the endogenous decision to enter the professional market with the month...

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Wage–productivity differentials and Indian economic efficiency

Sahoo, Amarendra; ten Raa, Thijs - In: Economic Modelling 29 (2012) 2, pp. 341-348

A frontier-general equilibrium analysis with skill transformation evaluates the productivities of skilled and unskilled labor and potential of the Indian economy. We compare the wages of skilled and unskilled labor between 1994 and 2002 with their respective productivities over this period....

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