entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences …? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of … US labor force participants. We show that education affects peoples’ decisions to become an entrepreneur negatively. We …

satisfaction. We use subjective survey information about job satisfaction and the fit between the migrant's education and skill …

Education is argued to be an important driver of the decision to start a business. The measurement of its influence … US. Theeffect of education on the decision to become self-employed is found to be strongly positive,much higher than the … estimated effect in case no instrumental variables are used. That is, thehigher the respondent's level of education, the greater …

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 …