to education are higher for women than men in both countries; the gender gap has worsened in 2008, but more so for …This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period … provided first for average returns to education second for returns at different levels of schooling and finally for returns by …

. Neuroticism explains the within-gender variance in individual risk-taking among women, who are on average more risk-averse than …

of what is recognized in mainstream theory and policy as work done by women. Thus, the traditional gender roles, with the … also need to go beyond standard models to interpret the intrahousehold gender inequities. We do not gain much insight from … concerted move toward sensitization of gender issues and scrutiny entailing a gender audit at every level of activity. This may …

The economic returns to education in transition countries have been extensively evaluated in the literature. The … present study contributes to this literature by estimating the returns to education in Georgia during the last transition … period 2000-04. We find very low returns to education in Georgia and little evidence of an increasing trend in the returns …

received by workers with the same years of education who are more or less able (ability premiums, for short) cause a smaller …

Florida. Fixed effects estimates of the impact of participating in the GED education program show post-release quarterly … who participated in GED-related prison education programs but left prison without a GED show no systematic evidence of an …

, improvements in the education structure will add about two million persons to the US labor force and about half a million persons … educational scenarios that we evaluate, increasing the number of persons who achieve more than lower education has the strongest … scenarios. Shifting people from intermediate to higher education levels also increases labor force participation in higher age …