nearly two decades, for samples split by education, and age - to our knowledge for the first time. The highly educated went …

research explained why education enhances earnings; why earnings rise at a diminishing rate throughout one's life; why earnings …

been very little work on the implications for the estimation of socioeconomic gradients in test scores in the international …'s occupation, parental education, and the number of books in the family home. Our results suggest that children's reports of their … commonly used - while results for parental education are rather mixed. …

. Education is an important investment therefore we use the results for 16 countries to test the positive relationship between … return to education and the risk involved in this investment. It seems that most of the countries fit the pattern well …

formal and informal sectors. We find that people with high levels of education allocate to the small formal sector and … receive high compensation for their education and experience. Less educated workers allocate to the informal sector. While …

paper uses the Over-education/ Required education/Under-education specification of the earnings equation to explore the … years of under-education. A set of predictions is presented to assess the relative importance of these channels, and the … over-education channel is shown to be the more influential factor. This channel is linked to greater positive selection in …

-Samuelson effect), and thus on the incentive for parents to invest in their children's education, associated with international …

performance is nonlinear. The evidence supports the idea that progressive education promotes social capital. -- education ; social …