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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 …
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\%. 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 …
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the true intergenerational education correlation to be relatively low; an increase of 1 year in the average level of …
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This paper utilizes the self-employed to analyze the observed increase in the educational earnings premium in the 1980?s. The paper compares the predictions of the signaling and human capital models in response to an exogenous demand shock such as a skill-biased technological change. Since the...
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analysis of a typical labor market in professional sports shows that the returns to education in sports are sizeable and … surprisingly similar to returns to formal education. The results of our analysis provide information for the players who are …
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Researchers often identify degree effects by including degree attainment (D) and years of schooling (S) in a wage model, yet the source of independent variation in these measures is not well understood. We argue that S is negatively correlated with ability among degree-holders because the most...
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The General Educational Development (GED) credential is issued on the basis of an eight hour subject-based test. The test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college and positions in the labor market. In 2008 alone, almost...
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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 …
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substitution of low education / high experience workers by low experience / high education workers by using US and French microdata … explain the changes in returns to experience. It also accounts for a part of the increase in returns to education between 1980 …: the elasticity of substitution between experience and education, which is found to be less than half. In France, the …
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