empirical strategy to estimate the intention-to-treat effect of this paid exemption on the education and labor market outcomes … reduction in education when we implement the same exercises with (i) data on females and (ii) placebo reform dates. The … interpretation is that the reform has reduced the incentives to continue education for the purpose of deferring military service. We …

empirical strategy to estimate the intention-to-treat effect of this paid exemption on education and labor market outcomes of … reduction in education when we implement the same exercises with (i) data on females and (ii) placebo reform dates. The … interpretation is that the reform has reduced the incentives to continue education for the purpose of deferring military service. We …

We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …

Franziska Bernadette Hampf prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education … of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays investigating various aspects of the link between education …

the determinants of the least squares bias of the wage return to education. We find that disregarding individual fixed …

Despite the lower quality of education provided Africans compared with whites in South Africa, the percentage wage … gains associated with additional years of primary, secondary, and higher education are substantially larger for Africans … than for whites in 1993, and they increase for both race groups at higher levels of education. The lower quantity (or …

education. While men with low skills out-earn their higher-skilled counterparts when they are very young, their earnings are …

Using data for the 1990's, this paper examines the role of sheepskin effects in the returns to education for Japan. Our …

Despite the lower quality of education provided Africans compared with whites in South Africa, the percentage wage … gains associated with additional years of primary, secondary, and higher education are substantially larger for Africans … than for whites in 1993, and they increase for both race groups at higher levels of education. The lower quantity (or …