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Can subsidising job-related training reduce inequality?
Angelopulos, Kōnstantinos; Benecchi, Andrea; Malley, … - 2017
A well-established stylised fact is that employer provided job-related training raises productivity and wages. Using UK … very effective in reducing inequality, measured as the distance between skilled and unskilled wages and incomes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704691
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The returns to elite college education : a quasi-experimental analysis
Anelli, Massimo - 2016
I take advantage of a sharp discontinuity in the probability of admission to an elite university at the admission score threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual administrative records about high school,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011536219
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Individual investments in education and health : policy responses and interactions
Carbone, Jared C.; Kverndokk, Snorre - 2016
Empirical studies show that years of schooling are positively correlated with good health. The implication may go from … education to health, from health to education, or from factors that influence both variables. We formalize a model that … determines an individual's demand for knowledge and health based on the causal effects, and study the impacts on the individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011554425
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How risky is college investment?
Hendricks, Lutz; Leukhina, Oksana - 2015
This paper is motivated by the fact that nearly half of US college students drop out without earning a bachelor's degree. Its objective is to quantify how much uncertainty college entrants face about their graduation outcomes. To do so, we develop a quantitative model of college choice. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010479348
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Getting lucky : the long-term consequences of exam luck
Landaud, Fanny; Maurin, Eric; Willage, Barton; Willén, … - 2022
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 end of high school. Lucky students take exams in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012817815
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The effects of high school peers' gender on college major, college performance and income
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2016
Using an originally constructed dataset that follows 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to the labor market, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We exploit the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515310
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"The double dividend of Training" : labor market effects of work-related continuous education in Switzerland
Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
This paper presents the first longitudinal estimates of the effect of work-related training on labor market outcomes in Switzerland. Using a novel dataset that links official census data on adult education to longitudinal register data on labor market outcomes, we apply a regression-adjusted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013413337
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Health capital provision and human capital accumulation
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2020
This article analyzes the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility …, private investment in children's health and education and human capital accumulation. I have used a growth model with … an additional factor that affects children's human capital, which is health. I analyze the overall society-wide effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171809
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Student earnings expectations : heterogeneity or noise?
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Hartog, Joop; Nilsson, William; … - 2016 - First draft 12-05-14; revised 26-01-15; this draft 19-09-2016
Students' choices in education can only be based on expected outcomes. Econometric models that infer expectations based on ex post outcomes impose a rational structure of expectations on school performance and post-graduation earnings. Direct surveys suggest much ignorance and fuzziness. We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544177
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Economic returns to speaking the right language(s)? : evidence from Kazakhstan's shift in state language and language of instruction
Aldashev, Alisher; Danzer, Alexander M. - 2014
This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan, a multi-ethnic country with complex ethnic settlement patterns that has switched its official state language from Russian to Kazakh. Using two newly assembled data sets, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010438031