, the answers provided to the typical research questions in the ORU literature on the utilization of schooling are …

This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using … lower payoff to schooling because of the different effects under-education and over-education have on their earnings. The …

The aim of this paper is to study whether schooling choices are affected by social interactions. Such social … eligible children tend to attend school more frequently, (ii) but also the ineligible children acquire more schooling when the …

The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born …. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The … measures of the quality of schooling undertaken abroad. The results suggest that a higher quality of schooling acquired abroad …

variability in returns to schooling is forecastable. This has important implications for using measured variability to price risk …

The internal rate of return to schooling is a fundamental economic parameter that is often used to assess whether … internal rates of return for different schooling levels. We implement a general nonparametric approach to estimate marginal … internal rates of return that take into account tuition costs, income taxes and nonlinearities in the earnings-schooling …

schooling. Analysis of data from the World Bank's 1997-98 Survey of Living Conditions in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar yields the …