Education choices are made based on the expected returns to schooling. If individuals are badly informed, they may make …-efficacy are also associated with lower expected returns to education. Comparing expectations with the actual earnings from a … earnings upon completing secondary education closely match observed earnings, while there is a tendency to overestimate the …

Abstract The new millennium brought with it a new challenge. Students reaching higher education were not only greater … entire higher education system, which in turn affected enrollment and graduation rates. Colombia faced this challenge with … severely scarce economic resources, but the Ministry of Education designed a plan to keep students in higher education and …

used by the Ministry of Education in 2021 to establish a “stoplight” system for in-person instruction. Using administrative … differences over time in the warning index to estimate the effects of the pandemic on dropout, promotion, and school switching …. The results show that municipalities with a higher warning index had significantly larger dropout, lower promotion rates …

gender education gap, we formulate and estimate a model of individual and family decision-making where education, labor … factor driving the growing gender education gap: Women with college educated mothers get greater utility from college, and …

The idea of positive educational externalities is that the benefits of individually acquired education may not be … still largely divided on whether the stock of education affects the long-run level or growth rate of the economy. A one …-year increase in average education is found to raise the level of output per capita by between 3 and 6 percent according to …

This paper analyses the relationship between education, gender and earnings in France and Germany. The model chosen … here enables to estimate the impact of education not only on the expected earnings level but also on their dispersion … general instruction yields an earnings premium that cannot compensated by a vocational degree. Moreover, education affects the …