variables using administrative Swedish data. We find that postponement of higher education is associated with a persistent and … studies. The reduction of lifetime earnings associated with two years postponement of higher education amounts to 40 …

variables using administrative Swedish data. We find that postponement of higher education is associated with a persistent and …

We use OECD-PIAAC data to estimate the earnings effects of both years of education and of numerical skills. Our … education has the strongest earnings effect. A one standard deviation increase in years of education raises earnings by almost … 22 percentage points (corresponding to a return to education above 7 percentage points), which compares with a lower …

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

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 …

education into higher earnings, non-HBCUs are doing a better job in helping graduates in science, technology, engineering, and …

We investigate whether acquiring more education when young has long-term effects on risk-taking behavior in financial … are more likely to invest in the stock market. However, little is known about whether this is a causal effect of education … or whether it arises from the correlation of education with unobserved characteristics. Using exogenous variation in …

Education and wealth are positively correlated for individuals approaching retirement, but the direction of the causal …