The value of sibling data for identifying the causal effect of schooling on wages hinges on our ability to eliminate … biases due to the mismeasurement of schooling. Analysts typically assume errors in schooling reports are "classical." In this … study, we use generalized method of moments to estimate the parameters of a range of measurement error models, including …

Woodruff (2003) the results obtained from Census data indicate a positive and small effect of remittances on schooling only for …

schooling. In a second step, we run wage regressions to examine direct effects. Our results suggest that the direct and indirect … interaction effects play an important role. The returns to schooling depend on the employees' parental background.  …

civilization through science, ideology, and schooling. Scientific exploration of civilization was an implementation of emerging … institutional structures; shifting balances of societies and regions; and more attention to the historical role of schooling and …

consistent with the observed patterns of the schooling differences across countries. Standard neoclassical models with schooling …Neoclassical growth models require large productivity/distortion differences across countries to produce the observed … adoption and schooling decisions, and show that in this environment the required productivity/distortion differences are much …

Washington State. We explore several issues of statistical specification for regression models quantifying the impact of … workers? schooling when their earnings may be temporarily depressed, (ii) whether earnings gains are strictly proportional to … the equivalent of an academic year of community college schooling raises the long-term earnings of displaced workers by an …

probability models and matching suggest a qualitatively negative relation between the age at school entry and educational outcomes … both in terms of schooling degree and probability of having to repeat a grade. These findings are likely driven by …