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 …

education shows positive effects for the unemployed with respect to both the employment probability and wages. To explain the … participate in adult education programs. We analyze the effect of this on the duration to work and on the wage rate, by applying … population. The Swedish adult education program is unprecedented in its size, and enrollment is universally available at …

both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with …This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin … education on health. Higher educational levels are found to be positively related to self-reported health but negatively related …

This paper examines the differential effects of mother's schooling and father's schooling on the acquisition of … schooling by their offspring. It does this in a "cross-cultural" context by comparing results across three countries: Germany … found, generally, that father's schooling is more important than mother's, but this does vary by ethnic group. Mother …

The measurement of the efficiency of public education expenditure using parametric and non-parametric methods has … the efficiency of secondary education spending in emerging and developing economies. The approach accounts for the impact … of the level of development on education outcomes by constructing different efficiency frontiers for lower- and higher …