education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 … direct biological mechanisms. We do not find evidence of indirect pathways through ability or education, and the long …-run effects are not mitigated by education. …

education. First, people- and household-based effects (internal returns to education and household wage and education … externalities) generate socioeconomic incentives for people to get an education and work, which are stronger in countries with the … regional interpersonal income and educational inequality, also influence wages and education in different ways across welfare …

Several recent studies based on 'exogenous' sources of variation in education outcomes show Instrumental Variables (IV …

age who receive less education because of the war. This paper shows that in the European countries involved in World War … II, children who were ten years old during the conflict were significantly less likely to proceed into higher education … those individuals who did not reach higher education because of the conflict and we calculate the implied loss of GDP for …

Incentives to invest in higher education are affected by both the direct wage effect of human capital investments and … educated. We analyse the returns to education in Austria, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the United Kingdom, countries which differ … significantly regarding both their education systems and labour market structure. We estimate augmented Mincerian wage equations …

phenomenon, there is limited evidence on the consequences of child labour for socioeconomic outcomes such as education …

Using data for the 1990s, this Paper examines the role of sheepskin effects in the returns to education for Japan. Our …

We use a new sample of UK female identical twins to estimate private economic returns to education. We report findings … in three areas. First, we use identical twins, to control for family effects and genetic ability bias, and the education …-family correlations of education with observable correlates of ability (including birthweight, ability tests and reading scores). Our …

In this paper we make a systematic presentation of returns to education in Austria for the period 1981-1997. We use … especially returns to university education have fallen. If the focus is not on mean returns, but if we apply quartile regression …