Humankapital gilt gemeinhin als eine wesentliche Determinante von Wachstum und Entwicklung. Der empirischen Forschung …. Klenow und Rodriguez-Clare (1997) sowie Hall und Jones (1999) weisen dem Produktionsfaktor Humankapital für die Erklärung … Basis verbesserter Humankapital-Daten bestritten wird. Weitgehend unbeachtet geblieben ist in der aktuellen empirischen …

This document offers a synthesis of the papers presented at the Conference on the Econometrics of Education: Modeling … the state of research in the economics of education. The methods of the economics of education are treated first, followed … by a discussion of two important findings of recent research: the variance of the returns to education, and the risk …

The paper provides a quantitative assessment of social returns to education in Italy. It shows that, after controlling … for individual characteristics, local average human capital is positively correlated with individual wages, with estimated …

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences …? And does education affect peoples' occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of … US labor force participants. We show that education affects peoples' decisions to become an entrepreneur negatively. We …

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences …? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of … US labor force participants. We show that education affects peoples’ decisions to become an entrepreneur negatively. We …

have positive impacts on young women's wages. We find evidence of ability sorting, but controlling for ability, women who … attend higher quality colleges earn higher wages. Women receive smaller gains from college quality than do men; black women … earn more than those who attend public colleges, and women earn lower wages, the higher the proportion of their college …