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Chapter 8 The Social Value of Education and Human Capital

Lange, Fabian; Topel, Robert - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 1, (pp. 459-509). 2006

We review and extend the empirical literature that seeks evidence of a wedge between the private and social returns to human capital, specifically education. This literature has two main strands. First, much of modern growth theory puts human capital at center-stage, building on older notions of...

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The Effect of Education on Geographic Mobility : Incidence, Timing, and Type of Migration

Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Kïrdar, Murat G.; Torun, Huzeyfe - 2021

education on both the incidence and timing of internal migration. In addition, for the first time in literature, we provide … causal effects of education on migration by reason for migration. We find that while education substantially increases the … incidence of migration among men, there is no evidence of an effect among women. Women, however, become more likely to migrate …

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More Schooling, More Children: Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe

Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nichole; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2011

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on the number of biological kids and the incidence of...

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Education and Unemployment: A French-German Comparison

Lauer, Charlotte - 2003

This paper analyses the link between educational attainment and unemployment risk in a French-German comparison, based on a discrete time competing risks hazard rate model applied to comparable microdata sets. The unemployment risk is broken down into the risk of entering unemployment and the...

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Family background, cohort and education: A French-German comparison

Lauer, Charlotte - 2002

This paper analyses the impact of family background, gender and cohort on educational attainment in France and Germany, relying on a theoretical model imbedded in the human capital theory. In a second step, the educational process is decomposed into school and post-school achievement. The same...

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A Model of Educational Attainment: Application to the German Case

Lauer, Charlotte - 2002

This paper aims at formulating a theoretical model of educational attainment which is directly implementable empirically. The conceptual frame-work relies on the human capital theory, where individuals weigh the costs and the returns of education to decide on the optimal amount of education they...

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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions

Portela, Miguel; Alessie, Rob; Teulings, Coen N. - 2004

The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement error. This paper analyses the effect of this measurement error on GDP regressions. There is a systematic difference in the education level between census data and observations...

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The Effect of Parents' Schooling on Child's Schooling: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis

de Haan, Monique - 2008

This paper uses a relatively new approach to investigate the effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling; a nonparametric bounds analysis based on Manski and Pepper (2000), using the most recent version of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. We start with making no assumptions and then add...

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Empleo y educación para el mañana

Montuschi, Luisa - 2018

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School quality, educational attainment and aggregation bias

Fertig, Michael; Wright, Robert E. - 2004

Data from 31 countries participating in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is used to estimate education production functions for reading literacy. The analysis suggests that the probability of finding statistically significant and correctly signed class size effects...

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