We use Danish register data to investigate whether the effects of schoolmates' gender and average parental education on … siblings and own parental education. We find that boys with sisters have worse employment prospects than boys with no sisters … dispersion of parental education increases. Overall, the size of the estimated effects is small …

education, and holds for eight CEE economies but not for the East Germans who have studied in the former German Democratic … Republic. We also find that post-secondary education acquired under communism yields higher, not lower, payoffs than similar … education in Western Europe …

Several commentators have argued that vocational education provides a smoother school to work transition than academic … education. In the long - run, however, the skills it provides depreciate faster and individuals with this type of education are … indicate that the initial advantage associated to vocational education declines over time, without turning however into a …

leaving age, we study the effects of the quantity of education on the distribution of earnings. We find that compulsory school … distribution of ability. Contrary to previous findings in the relevant literature, we find that additional education reduces wage … inequality below median income and increases it above median income. There is also evidence in our data that education and …

In this paper we estimate the effect of education on lifetime earnings in Europe, by distinguishing between individuals …. We instrument years of education using reforms of compulsory education in nine different countries, and find that … education. Our main result is that books at home at age ten have had long-lasting beneficial effects on the individuals who were …

because of their higher education, laterborns quickly catch up by switching earlier and more frequently to better paying jobs …

In the large empirical literature that investigates the causal effects of education on outcomes such as health, wages … and crime, it is customary to measure education with years of schooling, and to identify these effects using the exogenous … variation provided by school reforms increasing compulsory education and minimum school leaving age. If these reforms are …