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1970 and 1975. Using the Quarterly Labour Force Survey, we find that the expansion caused men to increase education by … about a year on average and gain about 8% higher wages; women obtained a slightly greater increase in education and a … obtain instrumental variables estimates of returns to schooling of about 6% for both men and women. -- return to education …
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Governments invest a lot of money in education, so it is important to understand the benefits of this spending. One … essential aspect is that education may make people better parents and thus improve the educational and employment outcomes of … inequality in current and future generations. In addition to purely formal education, much less expensive interventions to …
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Governments invest a lot of money in education, so it is important to understand the benefits of this spending. One … essential aspect is that education can potentially make people better parents and thus improve the educational and employment … reduce inequality in current and future generations. In addition to purely formal education, much less expensive …
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In recent years there has been a plethora of empirical papers by economists concerning the effects of academic rank in school or college on subsequent outcomes of students. We review this recent literature, describing the difficult identification and measurement issues, the assumptions and...
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There are two well-established gender gaps in education. First, females tend to have higher educational attainment and …
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Governments invest a lot of money in education, so it is important to understand the benefits of this spending. One … essential aspect is that education may make people better parents and thus improve the educational and employment outcomes of … inequality in current and future generations. In addition to purely formal education, much less expensive interventions to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764641
Much evidence suggests that having more education leads to higher earnings in the labor market. However, there is … little evidence about whether having more education causes employees to experience lower earnings volatility or shelters them … evidence that education affects earnings volatility of older men. …
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