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assess the theoretically ambiguous long-term relative earnings of general vs. specific training for unemployed. Analyzing … detailed administrative data 1990-2010, we find 1) that specific training is associated with higher earnings in the short run …, 2) that earnings converge 5-7 years post program and 3) that individuals act on their comparative advantages. When we …
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A postsecondary degree is often held up as the one sure path to financial success. But is that true regardless of institutional quality, discipline studied, or individual characteristics? Is a college degree always worth the cost? Students deciding whether to invest in college and what field to...
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increase in earnings come on top of the already well-documented public health effects that have so far provided the rationale …
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Formal schooling increases earnings and provides other individual benefits. However, societal benefits of education may … earnings, even for locals with relatively little education. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduates …
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This paper estimates the association of demographic and educational changes with earnings and returns to schooling of … educational transitions are correlated with earnings and returns to education. Proportions of people in age-education groups tend … to have negative associations with aggregated earnings. Workers with secondary education completed experience negative …
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We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated …
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market. Our difference-in-difference model estimates whether the earnings difference between individuals with high and low … grades differs between central and local exams. We find that the earnings premium for a one standard-deviation increase in …
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market. Our difference-in-difference model estimates whether the earnings difference between individuals with high and low … grades differs between central and local exams. We find that the earnings premium for a one standard-deviation increase in …
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The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In this paper, we use data of the 2004 German Socio-Economic Panel and Bayesian analysis in order to analyze to what degree violations of the strong validity assumption affect the...
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