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Economic returns to education: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and Where We Are Going—Some brief pointers

Dickson, Matt; Harmon, Colm - In: Economics of Education Review 30 (2011) 6, pp. 1118-1122

The estimation of the economic return to education has perhaps been one of the predominant areas of analysis in applied economics for over 50 years. In this short note we consider some of the recent directions taken by the literature, and also some of the blockages faced by both science and...

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The labor market returns to a for-profit college education

Cellini, Stephanie Riegg; Chaudhary, Latika - In: Economics of Education Review 43 (2014) C, pp. 125-140

-invariant unobservable characteristics of students, we find that students who enroll in associate's degree programs in for-profit colleges … associate's degree students attend for an average of 2.6 years, this translates to a 4% return per year of education in a for …

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Analyzing Zero Returns to Education in Germany: Heterogeneous Effects and Skill Formation

Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Schmitz, Hendrik - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 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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Education et marchés du travail à Brazzaville et Pointe Noire (Congo-Brazzaville)

Kuépié, Mathias; Nordman, Christophe Jalil - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011

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Estimates of the causal effects of education on earnings over the lifecycle with cohort effects and endogenous education

Migali, Giuseppe; Walker, Ian - Department of Economics, Management School - 2011

This paper acknowledges that the relationship between log wages and schooling is considerably more complex than the simple human capital earnings function suggests and that schooling is endogenous. We estimate a model where educational attainment is discrete and ordered and log wages are...

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The medium-term labor market returns to community college awards: Evidence from North Carolina

Liu, Vivian Y.T.; Belfield, Clive R.; Trimble, Madeline J. - In: Economics of Education Review 44 (2015) C, pp. 42-55

This paper examines the relative labor market gains for first-time college students who entered the North Carolina … National Student Clearinghouse data across 830,000 students between 2001 and 2010. Findings from this study confirm those from … returns. Returns were higher for female than for male students. Despite the Great Recession, the returns to college remain …

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The Dynamics of Returns to Education in Kenyan and Tanzanian Manufacturing

Söderbom, Måns; Teal, Francis; Wambugu, Anthony; … - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2003

The returns to education remain a central concern for development policy. In developed countries there is evidence that the returns to education have been rising. Evidence for changes over this period for developing countries is limited. In this paper we use data from Kenya and Tanzania to...

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What determines the return to education: An extra year or hurdle cleared?

Dickson, Matt; Smith, Sarah - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2011

The 1973 Raising of the School Leaving Age in England and Wales has been used to identify returns to years’ schooling. However, the reform affected the proportion with qualifications, as well as schooling length. To shed light on whether the returns reflect extra schooling or qualifications,...

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Exploring the inter-industry wage premia in Portugal along the wage distribution: evidence from EU-SILC data

Biagetti, Marco; Scicchitano, Sergio - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 1, pp. 93-99

In this article we investigate whether inequality in the inter-industry wage premia may be explained by unobserved differences in workers' educational skills. We use the last 2007 wave of EU-SILC data set for Portugal, a nation which can be considered a case-study, due to its traditional high...

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Sectoral human capital spillovers: Evidence from Turkey

BAKIŞ, Ozan; DAVUTYAN, Nurhan; LEVENT, Haluk; POLAT, Sezgin - In: Iktisat Isletme ve Finans 26 (2011) 298, pp. 9-20

Evidence based on the data from the 2004-2008 Household Labor Surveys, demonstrates the existence of within sector knowledge spillovers in Turkey. Estimates from a two step regressions confirm prior findings for different countries. Job tenure proxying for on the job training is a source of...

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