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The importance of cognitive domains and the returns to schooling in South Africa : evidence from two labor surveys

Nikolov, Plamen; Jimi, Nusrat - 2020

Numerous studies have considered the important role of cognition in estimating the returns to schooling. How cognitive abilities affect schooling may have important policy implications, especially in developing countries during periods of increasing educational attainment. Using two longitudinal...

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Wage returns to human capital resulting from an extra year of primary school : evidence from Egypt

Asʿad, Rāǧī; Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Dayıoğlu, Meltem; … - 2023

fathers have low levels of education - indicating important human capital effects for underprivileged boys. Consistent with …

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The big expansion of rural secondary schooling during the cultural revolution and the returns to education in rural China

Zhu, Mengbing; Sicular, Terry - 2022

During the Cultural Revolution China embarked on a dramatic, albeit temporary, expansion of secondary education in … variation in the expansion across localities and birth cohorts to estimate the impact of Cultural Revolution education on … education on off-farm employment and wage earnings. The effect on household income is mixed and likely reflects the substitution …

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The effects of schooling on cognitive skills : evidence from education expansions

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Checchi, Daniele; Ovidi, Marco - 2023

We quantify the causal effect of schooling on cognitive skills across 21 countries and the full distribution of working-age individuals. We exploit exogenous variation in educational attainment induced by a broad set of institutional reforms affecting different cohorts of individuals in...

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Low wage returns to schooling in a developing country : evidence from a major policy reform in Turkey

Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2015

In this paper, we estimate the returns on schooling for young men and women in Turkey using the exogenous and substantial variation in schooling across birth-cohorts brought about by the 1997 reform of compulsory schooling. We estimate that among 18- to 26-year-olds, the return from an extra...

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The returns to elite college education : a quasi-experimental analysis

Anelli, Massimo - 2016

threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual …

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Returns to schooling among immigrants in Spain : a quantile regression approach

Budría, Santiago; Swedberg, Pablo; Fonseca, Marlene - 2016

-scale immigration survey published by the Spanish National Statistics Institute in 2008. We find that the return to higher education is … the benefits derived from higher education are particularly relevant for individuals with stronger unobserved abilities … return. The large degree of heterogeneity for the returns to schooling found in our research suggests that higher education …

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The returns to elite college education : a quasi-experimental analysis

Anelli, Massimo - 2016

threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011536219

Estimation of dynamic discrete choice models by maximum likelihood and the simulated method of moments

Eisenhauer, Philipp; Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - 2014

discrete choice models. We construct and estimate a simplified dynamic structural model of education that captures some basic …

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Sheepskin effects in Japan

Bauer, Thomas K.; Dross, Patrick J.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2002

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

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