-tenure-track employees at a large university. Using administrative records on the eligible population of employees not covered by collective …

people in higher education, while increasing the share of the costs of higher education paid by students themselves. A … rationale for the latter element comes from evidence of a high private return to university undergraduate degrees. However, much …

subject using three alternative modeling approaches to control for student self-selection into university courses: i) a … unobservable student characteristics. The ranking of university subjects based on relative earnings premia is sensitive not only to …

which higher education in Canada has increasingly become the domain of students from well-to-do families. An analysis of two … separate data sets suggests that individuals from higher income families are much more likely to attend university, but this …

administrative panel data for the period 1996 to 2005 from the Dutch tertiary education system. The study decomposes wage …

are negligible. Second, among composition effects, education has an inequality-reducing impact, while the increase in … clear cut policy implication is that policies enhancing education and economic performance contribute to reduce happiness …

. Furthermore, effects are heterogeneous across education groups: teen motherhood has larger negative effects on high school … completion and years of schooling among poor and low-education households. Our results imply that policies aimed at reducing … early childbearing will have important short-term effects on young women's education outcomes. …

secular education reform, decreases women's propensity to identify themselves as religious, lowers their tendency to wear a … religious head cover (head scarf, turban or burka) and increases the tendency for modernity. Education reduces women …'s propensity to vote for Islamic parties. There is no statistically significant impact of education on men's religiosity or their …