model using a unique data set of individuals who completed undergraduate education in the Netherlands between 1995 and 2001 …

return in industrial countries. The return varies, however, by gender, rural or urban residence, and the share of agriculture … entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …

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 …

skewed. Our best guess of ex ante risk in university education is a coefficient ofvariation of about 0.3, comparable to that …

We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We … college education cannot universally be considered an insurance against unpredictability of wages. One conclusion is …

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 …

While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on … to linked data from health surveys, tax files and the mortality register to estimate the causal effect of education on …

The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In … (perfect validity of the instrument). The size of the bias is in many cases smaller than the standard error of education …