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Evaluating the impact of education on earnings in the UK: Models, methjods and results from the NCDS

Blundell, Richard W.; Dearden, Lorraine; Sianesi, Barbara - 2003

Regression, matching, control function and instrumental variables methods for recovering the impact of education on … find an average return of 27% for those completing higher education versus anything less. Compared to stopping at 16 … without qualifications, we find an average return to O-levels of 18%, to A-levels of 24% and to higher education of 48%. …

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Explaining the socio-economic gradient in child outcomes: The intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills

Crawford, Claire; Goodman, Alissa; Joyce, Robert - 2010

Papers in this volume and elsewhere consistently find a strong relationship between children's cognitive abilities and their parents' socio-economic position (SEP). Most studies seeking to explain the paths through which SEP affects cognitive skills suffer from a potentially serious omitted...

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Consumption inequality and partial insurance

Blundell, Richard W.; Pistaferri, Luigi; Preston, Ian - 2004

This paper describes the transmission of income inequality into consumption inequality and in so doing investigates the degree of insurance to income shocks. It combines panel data on income from the PSID with consumption data from repeated CEX cross-sections and distinguishes between permanent...

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Understanding the effects of early motherhood in Britain: The effects on mothers

Goodman, Alissa; Kaplan, Greg; Walker, Ian - 2004

This paper examines the socio-economic consequences of teenage motherhood for a cohort of British women born in 1970. We apply a number of different methodologies on the same dataset, including OLS, a propensity score matching estimator, and an instrumental variables estimator, using...

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Changes in the distribution of male and female wages accounting for employment composition using bounds

Blundell, Richard W.; Gosling, Amanda; Ichimura, Hidehiko; … - 2004

assumptions we find convincing evidence of an increase in inequality within education groups, changes in the return to education …

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