economics of education andorganizational economics. The dissertation covers papers which link thesetwo research areas. The … lowability students into higher education, universities increase requirementsto deter undesired students. In a duopoly with ….Chapter four discusses the impact of ability grouping in secondary educationon student incentives. Education provides a signal on …

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 … effect on the earnings of an individual from participation in education. Moreover, the size of the effect seems large …

This paper reassesses the debate over the role of education in farm production in Bangladesh using a large dataset on … ascertain the effect of education on productivity and efficiency. A full set of proxies for farm education stock variables are … incorporated to investigate the ‘internal’ as well as ‘external’ returns to education. The external effect is investigated in the …