education. Furthermore, the authors find that premarket locus of control, defined as locus of control measured at the time of … education decisions. In light of the existing literature, which finds mostly positive effects of contemporaneous locus of … locus of control, influence the cost of education but not outcomes directly, these individual characteristics may keep …

We assess the relevance of formal education for the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between … employment options. We expect differences in the returns to education between these groups because of different levels of control …. We use the German Socio-economic Panel and account for the endogeneity of education and non-random selection. The results …

In this paper I investigate the causal returns to education for different educational groups in Germany by employing a … find that the causal return to education is 8.5% for the entire sample, 2.3% for graduates from the basic school track and …

, overall, education and labor market experience accumulated in the home countries of the immigrants receive significantly lower …

assess returns to education. Our framework for evaluating the distribution of age-specific returns to investments in …

Determining the optimal age at which a child should enter school is a controversial topic in education policy. In …