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Are Austrian Returns to Education Falling Over Time?
Fersterer, Josef; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 1999
In this paper we make a systematic presentation of returns to education in Austria for the period 1981-1997. We use consistent cross-sections from the Mikrozensus and find falling returns over time. These falling returns are not caused by changes in the sample design and reduced willingness to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262293
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Smoking, Discount Rates, and Returns to Education
Fersterer, Josef; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2000
Individual time preference determines schooling enrolment. Moreover, smoking behavior in early ages has been shown to be highly related to time preference rates. Accordingly, we use smoking at age 16 as an instrument for schooling in order to cope with ability bias in a returns to education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262347
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Measuring Heterogeneity in the Returns to Education in Norway Using Educational Reforms
Aakvik, Arild; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Vaage, Kjell - 2003
The decision to take more education is complex, and is influenced by individual ability, financial constraints, family background, preferences, etc. Such factors, normally unobserved by the researcher, introduce endogeneity and heterogeneity problems into estimating the returns to education. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261552
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Returns to apprenticeship training in Austria: evidence from failed firms
Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, … - 2007
Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. There is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and there might be an important element of selection in who obtains an apprenticeship, and what type. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268368
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From the cradle to the labor market? The effect of birth weight on adult outcomes
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2005
of children from poorer families. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267621
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Care or cash? The effect of child care subsidies on student performance
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Loken, Katrine V.; … - 2012
, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic … these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286894
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Too young to leave the nest? The effects of school starting age
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2008
using scores from IQ tests taken outside of school, at the time of military enrolment, and measured when students are around …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268720
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A Second Chance? Labor Market Returns to Adult Education Using School Reforms
Bennett, Patrick; Blundell, Richard; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2020
Roughly one third of a cohort drop out of high school across OECD countries, and developing effective tools to address prime-aged high school dropouts is a key policy question. We leverage high quality Norwegian register data, and for identification we exploit reforms enabling access to high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270270
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The Wage Expectations of European College Students
Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
the results of the first systematic study of the wage expectations of European college students. Our data are based on the … replies to the same questionnaire by more than 6000 college students all over Europe. We study the determinants of wage …-specific micro-data. In line with U.S. studies we find that students overestimate returns to education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703334
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Are Austrian Returns to Education Falling Over Time?
Fersterer, Josef; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
In this paper we make a systematic presentation of returns to education in Austria for the period 1981-1997. We use consistent cross-sections from the Mikrozensus and find falling returns over time. These falling returns are not caused by changes in the sample design and reduced willingness to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822824