We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … with sisters obtain lower education and give birth earlier than women with brothers. Our analysis shows that the family …

The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In … violations of the strong validity assumption affect the estimation results. We show that, in case of moderate direct effects of … (perfect validity of the instrument). The size of the bias is in many cases smaller than the standard error of education …

Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the … of education reduces the private return by 2 percentage points, consistent with Katz-Murphy's (1992) elasticity of …

relationship between agglomeration externalities and the level of education. While the positive relationship between economic … relationship between density and productivity for workers with different types of education. Apart from estimating the impact of … aggregate density, we also estimate whether the composition of the local labor market in terms of education is related to the …

This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …

This paper examines the evolution of the returns to education in Portugal over the 1980s andearly 1990s. The main … findings indicate that the returns to education have increased,particularly after joining the European Union in 1986. Since … this occurred along with anincrease in the level of education within the labour force, the process is most likely …

This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we … explore exogenous variation in parental education induced by a schooling reform in 1947, which raised the minimum school …

model using a unique data set of individuals who completed undergraduate education in the Netherlands between 1995 and 2001 …. Our estimation results show that a 1 percent point decrease in unemployment rate increases wage offers with 3 percent …