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Evaluating intergenerational persistence of economic preferences: A large scale experiment with families in Bangladesh

Chowdhury, Shyamal; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018

fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the … economic preferences of mothers and fathers are significantly positively related to their children’s economic preferences …

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Returns to Investment in Education: The Case of Turkey

Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Psacharopoulos, George; … - 2019

and a social return of 10 percent. Using the number of children younger than age 15 in the household as an exclusion …

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Returns to Education in the Russian Federation: Some New Estimates

Melianova, Ekaterina; Parandekar, Suhas; Patrinos, … - 2020

This paper presents new estimates of the returns to education in the Russian Federation using data from 1994 to 2018. Although the returns to schooling increased for a time, they are now much lower than the global average. Private returns to education are three times greater for higher education...

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What drives social returns to education? A meta-analysis

Cui, Ying; Martins, Pedro S. - 2020

Education can generate important externalities that contribute towards economic growth and convergence. In this paper, we study the drivers of such externalities by conducting the first meta-analysis of the social returns to education literature. We analyse over 1,000 estimates from 31 articles...

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Fluctuations in the wage gap between vocational and general secondary education: lessons from Portugal

Hartog, Joop; Raposo, Pedro S.; Reis, Hugo - 2021

We document and analyse the wage gap between vocational and general secondary education in Portugal between 1994 and 2013. As Portuguese workers have been educated in different school systems, we have to distinguish birth cohorts. Analysing the wage gaps within cohorts, we find no support for...

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Returns to Education in China: Evidence from the Great Higher Education Expansion

Huang, Bin; Tani, Massimiliano; Wei, Yi; Zhu, Yu - 2022

difference-in-differences estimator using rural students to control for common time trends. We find that the Great HE raised … interpreted as the Local Average Treatment Effect (LATE) of education on earnings for urban students who enrolled in HE only … the 2SLS returns for students from more disadvantaged backgrounds are at least as high as their more advantaged …

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Returns to Education in the Public and Private Sectors: Europe and Central Asia

Montenegroa, Claudio M.; Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2022

The returns to schooling are estimated for 28 European and Central Asian countries using the Mincerian function. Our results show that while the public sector pays on average more than the private sector, the effect of education on earnings is stronger in the private sector. However, the returns...

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Returns to Education in Greece: Evidence from the 1977 Labor Market Survey using the Greek Civil War as an Instrument

Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2022

Greece experienced a devastating civil war in 1946-1949. This led to many deaths, economic losses, and severe reductions in schooling expenditures and attendance. Using an instrumental variables approach, we estimate the 1977 returns to schooling, showing that for those affected by the civil...

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Updates on Returns to Education in India: Analysis using PLFS 2018-19 Data

Chen, Jie; Kanjilal-Bhaduri, Sanghamitra; Pastore, Francesco - 2022

in other lowmiddle- income countries, especially in rural areas, it is important to increase primary and secondary level …

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The Impact of the Transition and EU Membership on the Returns to Schooling in Europe

Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Rivera-Olvera, Angelica - 2023

Countries across Eastern Europe and Central Asia are in their third decade of independence. What impact does this have on the skills premium and does accession to the European Union have an impact on the returns to education? The returns to education in 28 transition and 20 non-transition...

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