primary school education from 7 to 8 years. At the same time, the reform did not affect the education system at post …-primary levels, that is the system of secondary and higher education. In result, all education tracks were extended by one year … countries. However, our study is the first one to estimate the impact of the compulsory schooling extended in a centrally …

A well-established empirical literature suggests that individual wages are persistent. Several theoretical arguments … support this empirical finding. Yet, the standard approach to the estimation of schooling returns does not account for this … commonly used static-model estimators of schooling coefficients are subject to an omitted-variable bias which can be named …

This meta-analytical review of empirical studies of the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship selection and … of schooling in developing economies raises enterprise income by an average of 5.5 percent, which is close to the average … entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …

Most empirical investigations of the effects of cognitive skills assume that they are produced by schooling. Drawing on …

Determining the optimal age at which a child should enter school is a controversial topic in education policy. In … both in terms of schooling degree and probability of having to repeat a grade. These findings are likely driven by …