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Early labor market prospects and family formation
Engdahl, Mattias; Godard, Mathilde; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2018
We use quasi-random variation in graduation years during the onset of a very deep national recession to study the relationship between early labor market conditions and young females' family formation outcomes. A policy-pilot affecting the length of upper-secondary education in Swedish...
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Analyzing wage differentials by fields of study: Evidence from Turkey
Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysit - 2017
This paper analyzes the drivers of wage differences among college graduates who hold a degree in a different field of study. We focus on Turkey, an emerging country that is characterized by a sustained expansion of higher education. We estimate conditional wage gaps by field of study using OLS...
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Imperfect signals
Graetz, Georg - 2023
A pre-condition for employer learning is that signals at labor market entry do not fully reveal graduates' productivity …
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The effects of compulsory military service exemption on education and labor market outcomes: Evidence from a natural experiment
Torun, Huzeyfe; Tumen, Semih - 2015
Based on a law enacted in November 1999, males born on or before December 31st 1972 are given the option to benefit 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...
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Finance and the Reallocation of Scientific, Engineering and Mathematical Talent
Marin, Giovanni; Vona, Francesco - 2022
The US financial sector has become a magnet for the brightest graduates in the science, technology, engineering and mathematical fields (STEM). We provide quantitative bases for this anecdotal fact for the US, over the period 1980-2019 and with a specific focus on the last decade where...
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Skilled or educated? Educational reforms, human capital and earnings
Cappellari, Lorenzo; Castelnovo, Paolo; Checchi, Daniele; … - 2016
We use OECD-PIAAC data to estimate the earnings effects of both years of education and of numerical skills. Our identification strategy exploits differential exposure to educational reforms across birth cohorts and countries. We find that education has the strongest earnings effect. A one...
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Returns to investment in education: The case of Turkey
Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Psacharopoulos, George; … - 2019
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...
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Decomposing outcome differences between HBCU and non-HBCU institutions
De Zeeuw, Mels; Fazili, Sameera; Hotchkiss, Julie L. - 2020
This paper investigates differences in outcomes between historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) and traditional college and universities (non-HBCUs) using a standard Oaxaca/Blinder decomposition. This method decomposes differences in observed educational and labor market outcomes...
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Learning to Take Risks? The Effect of Education on Risk-Taking in Financial Markets
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Lundborg, Petter; … - 2015
We investigate whether acquiring more education when young has long-term effects on risk-taking behavior in financial markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is substantial evidence that more educated people are more likely to invest in the stock market....
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Productivity gap between tradable and non-tradable industries and duality in higher education
Brezis, Elise S.; Brand, Gilad - 2017
Over the last decades, productivity in the tradable sector rose substantially, while in the non-tradable sector, output … duality in higher education as well as heterogeneous ability of individuals can explain the differences in labor productivity … can explain that despite an increase in human capital in both sectors, there is still a gap in productivity. In other …
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