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Job displacement costs of phasing out coal
Rud, Juan Pablo; Simmons, Michael; Toews, Gerhard; … - 2022
estimate the long-term impact on displaced miners. We find evidence of substantial losses: wages fall by 40% and earnings fall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013464971
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Earnings returns to the British education expansion
Devereux, Paul J.; Fan, Wen - 2011
about a year on average and gain about 8% higher wages; women obtained a slightly greater increase in education and a … similar increase in wages. Clearly, there was a sizeable gain from being born late enough to take advantage of the greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009731763
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For better or worse? : subjective expectations and cost-benefit trade-offs in health behavior
Conti, Gabriella; Giustinelli, Pamela - 2023
We provide a framework to disentangle the role of preferences and beliefs in health behavior, and we apply it to compliance behavior during the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using rich data on subjective expectations collected during the spring 2020 lockdown in the UK, we estimate a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014373647
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Great or grim? : disagreement about Brexit, economic expectations, and household spending
Kuang, Pei; Luca, Davide; Wei, Zhiwu; Yao, Yao - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287269
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Forced to be rich? : returns to compulsory schooling in Britain
Devereux, Paul J.; Hart, Robert A. - 2009
Do students benefit from compulsory schooling? In an important article, Oreopoulos (2006) studied the 1947 British …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009724988
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Estimating the return to college in Britain using regression and propensity score matching
Fan, Wen - 2011
association between wages and college degree is due to the causal effect of a college degree and how much is due to unobserved … factors that influence both wages and education (e.g. ability). In this paper, I use the 1970 British Cohort Study to examine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009731743
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Can education compensate for low ability? : Evidence from British data
Denny, Kevin (contributor); O'Sullivan, Vincent (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002089858
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Does education raise productivity, or just reflect it?
Chevalier, Arnaud; Harmon, Colm; Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001726500
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Using heteroscedasticity to estimate the returns to education
Hogan, Vincent (contributor); Rigobón, Roberto (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001726509
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Parents know better: primary school choice and student achievement in London
Ovidi, Marco - 2021
students around year-specific catchment boundaries that cannot be exactly anticipated by parents. I find that attending the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012395616