This paper provides a meta-analytical review of empirical studies into the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship … conclusions result from this meta-analysis. First, we find that the impact of education on selection into entrepreneurship is … neither positive nor negative. Second, the effect of education on performance is positive and significant. Third, the return …

may be having an impact on wages over and above traditional human capital indicators such as education and work experience …

In this paper we focus on education as a private decision to invest in ‘human capital’ and the estimation of the rate … regression methods where the estimated return is obtained as the coefficient ona years of education variable in a log wage … returns to the individual is compelling. Despite some of these issues surrounding the estimation of the return to schooling …

This paper analyses the effects of individual investments in four field-specific educational resources on wages in the … knowledge. Second, economic resources are expected to affect wages positively. Third, people whose educational resources match …,373) generally support the hypotheses, be it that matches increase wages in three out of four branches: economic, communicative and …

adoption and schooling decisions, and show that in this environment the required productivity/distortion differences are much … smaller. The schooling and technology adoption features of the model amplify the effects of productivity … disparity than a standard model. Moreover, I find that it is the interaction between the technology adoption and schooling …

-specific differences in the trade-off between different forms of work and schooling (based on North Indian evidence). The subsequent … the book addresses the causal effects of trade liberalization on regional child labor and schooling outcomes in Indonesia … system, and shifting the incentives in favor of education. Globalization, more specifically trade liberalization, can both …

quantity and the quality of education. We adjust the original schooling data in Borensztein et al. (Journal of International … education quality and suggest that with improved quality of education, it does not take as much quantity of schooling, as … developed host country only when the host country obtains a threshold level of secondary schooling. Borensztein et al. (Journal …

different margins of adjustment across the income distribution can be rationalized by a model in which preferences for schooling …

Education, child nutrition, adult health/nutrition, and labor mobility are critical factors in achieving recent … endogenous, particularly prone to measurement error, and heterogeneous in their effects on wages. Overall returns to these four … forms of human capital are similar within each country for men and women, but education and migration returns are higher in …