levels and see their participation and employment probability as adults enhanced. We show that the estimated genuine impact … of attaining an academic qualification on participation and employment is always statistically significant, in particular … 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 …

inequality of opportunities. One crucial element of intergenerational mobility is the way parents influence the education of … analyze 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 …

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 …

investigates the effect of the expansion on early labour market attainment, focusing on over-education. We define over-education by … over-education wage penalties have remained stable. This suggests that the labour market accommodated most of the large … over-education increases unemployment by three months but has no impact of the number of jobs held. Individual unobserved …

years immediately after birth. This study analyzes whether the across-cohort patterns in the black-white education and …-of-test taking. With Census data, we find: i) a significant narrowing across the same cohorts in education gaps driven primarily by a … insensitive to adjustments for employment selection, as well as time and age effects that vary by race and state-of-residence. The …

years immediately after birth. This study analyzes whether the across-cohort patterns in the black-white education and …-of-test taking. With Census data, we find: i) a significant narrowing across the same cohorts in education gaps driven primarily by a … insensitive to adjustments for employment selection, as well as time and age effects that vary by race and state-of-residence. The …

overeducation. Overeducation causes a penalty to individuals in terms of earnings and employment opportunities and a waste of … resources to the society at large in terms of state investment into education that do not bear its yields. Both penalties are … address the aim of generating competences rather than only education for their graduates …

In the large empirical literature that investigates the causal effects of education on outcomes such as health, wages … and crime, it is customary to measure education with years of schooling, and to identify these effects using the exogenous … variation provided by school reforms increasing compulsory education and minimum school leaving age. If these reforms are …