This paper uses newly available Chinese micro data to estimate the return to college education for late 20th century … return to education has increased substantially in China, compared to the returns measured in the 1980?s and the early 1990?s. …

This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin … both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with … education on health. Higher educational levels are found to be positively related to self-reported health but negatively related …

education and work experience are high and stable, which is atypical for a transition country. This might be due to the … experience contained, though largely unexplained discrimination coupled with higher than average returns to education. A wage …

the literature by establishing the possibility of increasing returns to education over part of a workers life within the …

Schools Micro Data Panel (TSMP). These unique data contain demographic and GED test score information from the Texas Education …

The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift is unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise …

\%. Various simulations indicate that schooling attainments are elastic with respect to the return to college education and, to a … attainments and parents' education (after conditioning on observed and unobserved ability) is found to be quite low. Finally, our …

the true intergenerational education correlation to be relatively low; an increase of 1 year in the average level of …

We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …