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Gender, productive ability and the perceived returns to education: Evidence from rural India

Chari, A.V.; Maertens, Annemie - In: Economics Letters 122 (2014) 2, pp. 253-257

Recent research has established the importance of perceived (as opposed to actual) returns as a determinant of educational investments. We analyze data from India to highlight gender disparities in the perceived returns to education and the salience of productive characteristics.

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Education and Italian regional development

Di Liberto, Adriana; Symons, James - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

Given recent emphasis on externality to education, macroeconomic studies have a role to play in the analysis of return to schooling. In this paper we study the connection between growth and human capital in a convergence regression for the panel of Italian regions. We include measures of...

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Sheepskin or prozac: the causal effect of education on mental health

Chevalier, Arnaud; Feinstein, Leon - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

Mental illness is associated with large costs to individuals and society. Education improves various health outcomes but little work has been done on mental illness. To obtain unbiased estimates of the effect of education on mental health, we rely on a rich longitudinal dataset that contains...

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Does the labour market explain lower female schooling in India?

Gandhi Kingdon, Geeta - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1997

Labour market discrimination against women and parental discrimination against daughters are two of the most commonly cited explanations of the gender gap in education in developing countries. This study empirically tests the labour market explanation for India using household survey data...

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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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