not. We also estimate the returns to graduation for potential FiF and non- FiF young people. We find that the wage returns … to graduation are not lower among FiF graduates compared to those who match their parents with a degree. The effects of … of graduation. We provide some context, offer explanations, and suggest implications of these findings. …

While the wage effects of vocational versus academic secondary education are well documented, there is little evidence … wage effect in China, drawing on an unprecedented higher education expansion initially focused on universities and only …

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 …

-2005. We find that only the HEI graduates obtain a wage premium from skills acquired in the course of formal education. This …

, the estimates show that origin-based differences in over-education wage penalties significantly depend on both … demographics (workers’ region of birth, education, and gender) and employer characteristics (firm size and collective bargaining). …

study. We focus on Turkey, an emerging country that is characterized by a sustained expansion of higher education. We …

differential graduate premiums by discipline, accounting for higher-education choice by individuals under substantial uncertainty … quality after graduation is only treated as a sensitivity check to the main results, due to concerns with self-selection. To … up-to-date research that sheds light on the causal effects of higher-education and subject choice, and the conclusions …

This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Turkey, using the 2017 Household Labor … Force Survey and alternative methodologies. The analysis uses the 1997 education reform of increasing compulsory education … by three years as an instrument. This results in a private rate of return on the order of 16 percent for higher education …

China experienced a near 5-fold increase in annual Higher Education (HE) enrolment in the decade starting in 1999 … interpreted as the Local Average Treatment Effect (LATE) of education on earnings for urban students who enrolled in HE only … because of the Great HE Expansion. For the selected subsample of respondents with parental education information, we find that …