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Earnings returns to the British education expansion
Devereux, Paul J.; Fan, Wen - 2011
1970 and 1975. Using the Quarterly Labour Force Survey, we find that the expansion caused men to increase education by … about a year on average and gain about 8% higher wages; women obtained a slightly greater increase in education and a … obtain instrumental variables estimates of returns to schooling of about 6% for both men and women. -- return to education …
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Blowing in the wind : the infiltration of Sicilian Mafia in the wind power business
Checchi, Valeria Virginia; Polo, Michele - 2019
Public policies in the last 20 years have promoted in Italy the investment in renewable energy sources within the framework of climate change policies. Investment in renewables received generous incentives, leading to a rapid expansion in the capacity installed. Judicial inquiries have uncovered...
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Convergence of European natural gas prices
Bastianin, Andrea; Galeotti, Marzio; Polo, Michele - 2018
Over the period 2015-2050 the consumption of natural gas of European OECD countries is expected to grow more than the consumption of any other energy source. Although these countries are interconnected and in most cases share a common currency, their wholesale national gas markets are highly...
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Rank effects in education: what do we know so far?
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2022
In recent years there has been a plethora of empirical papers by economists concerning the effects of academic rank in school or college on subsequent outcomes of students. We review this recent literature, describing the difficult identification and measurement issues, the assumptions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040930
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Gender and educational achievement : stylized facts and causal evidence
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2021
There are two well-established gender gaps in education. First, females tend to have higher educational attainment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012437075
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More education, less volatility? : the effect of education on earnings volatility over the life cycle
Delaney, Judith M.; Devereux, Paul J. - 2017
Much evidence suggests that having more education leads to higher earnings in the labor market. However, there is … little evidence about whether having more education causes employees to experience lower earnings volatility or shelters them … evidence that education affects earnings volatility of older men. …
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