market outcomes in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We demonstrate that the same genetic score that predicts education … is also associated with higher wages, but only among individuals with a college education. Moreover, the genetic gradient …

market outcomes in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We demonstrate that the same genetic score that predicts education … is also associated with higher wages, but only among individuals with a college education. Moreover, the genetic gradient …

This paper studies the impact of exam luck on individuals’ education and labor market success. We leverage unique … features of the Norwegian education system that produce random variation in the content of the exams taken by students at the … improvements in both their high school GPA and diploma probability. Subsequently, exam luck generates substantial and persistent …

We seek to quantify the role of education as a mechanism through which family background affects earnings. To this end … through the pathway of education and through other mechanisms. The results suggest that educational attainment explains 24 …%-39% of the overall family background effect on earnings in Australia. The mediating role of education seems to be larger for …

In spite of large structural expansions in higher education in Chile and Peru during the 1980s and 1990s, and a … favourable growth context, levels of inequality are still very high in both countries and inequities in higher education persist …. This paper investigates the role that higher education has played for social mobility in Chile and Peru. In particular, to …