earnings in the first years of the career. I estimate the reduced-form effect of the school entry law on starting wages and …Empirical evidence suggests that relative age, which is determined by date of birth and the school entry cutoff date … analyze whether the initial assignment to different school tracks has persistent effects on educational attainment and …

of stocks from flows, e.g. school enrollment data. We use a consistent two stage least squares estimation procedure. We …. This data contains measures of educational attainment for four distinct categories: (a) 9 to11 years, (b) high school … find that (i) the percentage of a county’s population with less than a high-school education is negatively correlated with …

inflation at the school level affects earnings mainly through choice of university and the chosen field of education, rather … enrolment in higher education and earnings for Sweden. Rigorous diagnostic testing supports our empirical approach. Grade … education have a substantial impact on earnings. On the other hand, high-skilled students attending upper secondary schools …

Palestine. The median ratio of male to female return is 0.55 (university) in 2004 and decreased to 0.17 (high school) in 2008 in … Palestine. The corresponding figures for Turkey are 0.79 and .082 (both for high school). Finally, it was found that the …

earnings gaps match those in early life health and test scores already established. It also addresses caveats in the earlier … relative increase in the probability of blacks going to college; and ii) a similar convergence in relative earnings that is … variation in racial convergence across birth states matches the patterns in the earlier study. The magnitude of the earnings …