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 …

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences …? And does education affect peoples' occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of … US labor force participants. We show that education affects peoples' decisions to become an entrepreneur negatively. We …

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

students compelled to stay on in education as a result of this compulsory school leaving rule attain higher qualification …

recent graduates in the area after they finish their education. This paper classifies 41 U.S. metropolitan areas as college … experience less favorable employment outcomes along multiple dimensions. On average, stayers earn lower annual and hourly wages …

The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …