We study the determinants of youth crime using a dynamic discrete choice model of crime and education. We allow past … education and criminal activities to affect current crime and educational decisions. We take advantage of a rich panel dataset … cognitive and social/emotional skills that feeds into the crime and education model. This allows us to separately identify the …

degrees with the highest average earnings and underestimates the returns to degrees with the lowest average earnings. Second …, we decompose the impacts on earnings into effects on wage rates and effects on hours. For most degrees, the earnings …

to zero impact on a range of labor market outcomes including earnings. Third, I show that lower-track schools featured …

reasonable estimates of the true causal impact of education on wages. In the UK it would appear that the effects of measurement … that education is exogenous, are reasonable estimates of the true causal impact of education on wages. In the UK it would …

– Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that … earnings. …

from the OECD, wage regressions are estimated which identify the effect of innovative activity on wages - the personal …

association between wages and college degree is due to the causal effect of a college degree and how much is due to unobserved … factors that influence both wages and education (e.g. ability). In this paper, I use the 1970 British Cohort Study to examine …