The educational screening hypothesis states that beyond a certain point schooling functions as a signaling device to … identify pre-existing talents. We test for the presence of screening by comparing the schooling and earnings of self … additional schooling to signal prospective employers. We expect self-employed managers to acquire no additional schooling for …

dynamics differ substantially by gender, education, and origin. Men face lower volatility than women, but their earnings growth …

We measure the effects of parental education on the education profile of wages. The analysis uses sibling pairs from … Women. We also use the variance across siblings in school characteristics to estimate the effects of school inputs on wages … holding family background constant. We obtained mixed evidence on whether parental education raises the return to education …

This paper uses a new survey to contrast the wages of genetically identical twins with different schooling levels … schooling increases wages by 16%, a higher estimate of the economic returns to schooling than has been previously found …. Multiple measurements of schooling levels were also collected to assess the effect of reporting error on the estimated economic …

education and on success in the labor market. I use the large variation in curriculum across US high schools to identify the … effects on wages and educational attainment of specific courses of study. The main finding is that the return to additional …

, and the relative pay of teachers -- on the rate of return to education for men born between 1920 and 1949. Using earnings … additional years of schooling, holding constant their current state of residence, their state of birth, the average return to … education in the region where they currently reside, and other factors. A decrease in the pupil-teacher ratio from 30 to 25, for …

fertility and education, a decreasing marginal effect of parental education on children's years of education, and wages that are … greater inequality. To investigate this we construct a dynamic model of intergenerational education acquisition, fertility …

-economic effects in terms of living standards, education, health, and gender equality, which appear to be unprecedented in depth and …

secondary schooling. The measures of productivity explored are: propensity to quit and be absent, phisical oatput per hour, and … ability to perform complex tasks. The data suggests that the sorting effect of education is an important determinant of …