We extract estimation results on the Mincer earnings function from four earlier studies and add new results from a … studies that cannot be explained. Jointly, the studies show a clear U-shaped development in the rate of return to education …

This paper studies the impact of exam luck on individuals’ education and labor market success. We leverage unique … features of the Norwegian education system that produce random variation in the content of the exams taken by students at the … those generated by well-known education inputs, such as parental education and teacher quality. …

Switzerland. Using a novel dataset that links official census data on adult education to longitudinal register data on labor … risk of unemployment two years after the treatment. However, the effects are heterogeneous as to gender, age, education …, and regional labor market context. The gains are highest for middle-aged men with formal vocational education working in …

Students' choices in education can only be based on expected outcomes. Econometric models that infer expectations based …

-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …