positively skewed. Our best guess of ex ante risk in university education is a coefficient of variation of about 0.3, comparable …

charging students for the costs of their education. …

students compelled to stay on in education as a result of this compulsory school leaving rule attain higher qualification …

inequality of opportunities. One crucial element of intergenerational mobility is the way parents influence the education of … analyse the association between parents? education and professional class and secondary track school choice and subsequent … convergence between males and females. The relationship between parental class and children?s education translates into earnings …

This paper examines the 1997 additions to the Current Population Survey education question. These new questions allow … imputed ?highest grade completed? is one-tenth grade greater and the estimated return to education .6 to 1 percentage points …

supply of graduates, the literature on over-education suggests that many graduates are unable to find employment in graduate …

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 …

performance is nonlinear. The evidence supports the idea that progressive education promotes social capital. …

skewed. Our best guess of ex ante risk in university education is a coefficient ofvariation of about 0.3, comparable to that …