This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Turkey, using the 2017 Household Labor … Force Survey and alternative methodologies. The analysis uses the 1997 education reform of increasing compulsory education … by three years as an instrument. This results in a private rate of return on the order of 16 percent for higher education …

This paper investigates the male wage inequality and its evolution over the 1994-2002 period in Turkey by estimating … Mincerian wage equations using OLS and quantile regression techniques. Male wage inequality is high in Turkey. While it declined … at the lower end of the wage distribution it increased at the top end of wage distribution. Education contributed to …

from a paid exemption from the compulsory military service in Turkey. Exploiting this natural experiment, we devise an … empirical strategy to estimate the intention-to-treat effect of this paid exemption on the education and labor market outcomes … reduction in education when we implement the same exercises with (i) data on females and (ii) placebo reform dates. The …

children. But what if children also affect their parents' human capital? Using exogenous variation in education, arising from a …-sectional relationship between children's education and their parents' longevity. Our causal estimates tell a different story; children …

study. We focus on Turkey, an emerging country that is characterized by a sustained expansion of higher education. We …

The strong relationship between various health indicators and education is widely documented. However, the studies that … developed countries. We add to this literature by studying the causal effect of education on days hospitalized and days out of … suggest that an increase in years of education causes to reduce the number of days hospitalized for both men and women …

university education in Turkey and migration to Germany. We implement bounds testing procedures to ascertain the long …Distinguishing between short-run and long-run outcomes we provide new insight into the relationship between education …-linear long-run and short-run relationship between home country university education and Turkish migration to Germany over 1970 …

. First, (marginally)retained students achieve the same amount of education than (marginally) promoted(i.e., high school … graduation, higher education enrollment, etc.). Second, they improve theircognitive ability (measured by test scores) in the …

in post-secondary education, students must factor in their completion probability into their decision. We study the role … of this uncertainty in educational choices using students' subjective beliefs about completing a post-secondary education …, which were elicited prior to students' completing secondary education. We relate these subjective completion probabilities …