Relatively few articles have examined the rates of return to education in Pakistan in recent years. This paper uses … data from the 2001-02 Pakistan Integrated Household Survey to compute returns from different levels of education. Returns … to education are found to be higher for females than for males at the lowest level of schooling. The results presented …

This paper investigates Becker, Hornung and Woessmann's recent claim that education had an important causal effect on … problems, notably the omission of relevant variables which leads to serious bias in the estimated effect of education. When … these problems are corrected, the conclusions of Becker, Hornung and Woessmann no longer hold. Education did not play an …

calibrated version we and that education always increases if life expectancy rises but the effect on the capital stock is still … potentially offsetting effects at work in models with endogenous education and overlapping generations which is key for …

In this paper, I make use of data from the 2000 follow-up of the National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS) post …-secondary education transcript files to extend what is known about the value of education at community colleges. I examine the effects of …

use both education and past job displacement as a signal of a worker's unobservable ability. As a result, educated workers …