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This paper analyses the causal effects of educational mismatch on wages, individual health and job satisfaction. As educational mismatch is subject to unobserved heterogeneity in all of these fields, different identification strategies are applied to derive causal effects. In the wage...
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Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...
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This paper studies the effect of attending a high-quality secondary school on subsequent educational outcomes. The analysis is based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study in which we observe children when they make their secondary school choice (between ages 10-12) and later when...
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We analyze the causal effect of education on old-age cognitive abilities using German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data … individual reaches in an ultra-short intelligence test. We explain this score, using instrumented education. Instrumental …). Using variations in education policy in the German federal states we are able to instrument education for three groups of …
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education and the impact of their ex ante wage expectations on college enrolment. The analysis contributes to a small developing … literature that uses subjective wage expectation data to predict education choice. We surveyed a full cohort of healthcare …
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This edited volume addresses a critical aspect of development in Africa: the intersection between education and … human resources, in terms of education, can be leveraged in the development process to achieve equity, inclusive development … paradigm to sustainable development in Africa. At a time when concerns over access to quality education is an important issue …
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Introduction / Charles R. Hulten and Valerie A. Ramey -- The macroeconomic link between education and real GDP growth …
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1. Introduction: Education and Human Capital, Current Debates, and Policy Imperatives -- 2. Unpacking the Rhetorical …–2010): Implications for Economic Inequality between Countries -- 4. Free Education, Schooling Outcomes, and Wages: An Inequality Analysis … in Benin after the 2006 Free Tuition Policy -- 5. Education Driving Agriculture-Led Economic and Social Transformation in …
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