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Education and earnings in Arkansas
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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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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Estimating the return to schooling using the Mincer equation : the Mincer equation gives comparable estimates of the average monetary returns of one additional year of education
Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2016
The Mincer equation-arguably the most widely used in empirical work-can be used to explain a host of economic, and even non-economic, phenomena. One such application involves explaining (and estimating) employment earnings as a function of schooling and labor market experience. The Mincer...
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Education and earnings in Arkansas
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015416187
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The Evolution of Inequality in Education Trajectories and Graduation Outcomes in the Us
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2022
Longitudinal Survey of Youths which we follow from 16 to 28. We discuss the evolution of family income and ability effects where … component correlated with family income and background variables. We find that the individual cognitive-technical ability … differential prevailing at 16 was increasing with income in the early 80's but much less so in the early 2000's. We find no …
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Differences in education and earnings across ethnic groups in Guatemala
Patrinos, Harry Anthony - In: The quarterly review of economics and finance : journal … 37 (1997) 4, pp. 809-821
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The evolution of inequality in education trajectories and graduation outcomes in the US
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013264562
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648540
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012651427
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The evolution of inequality in education trajectories and graduation outcomes in the US
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013355190