Flannery, Darragh; O'Donoghue, Cathal - Department of Economics, College of Business - 2012
In this paper we utilise microsimulation techniques in the form of an income generation model and a tax/benefit model to estimate both the fiscal and net private return to education at a marginal level. This is carried out empirically using Irish data across the period 1987-2011 and is the first...