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The College Wage Premium, Overeducation, and the Expansion of Higher Education in the UK

Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2021

This paper provides findings from the UK Labour Force Surveys from 1996 to 2003 on the financial private returns to a degree - the "college premium." The data covers a decade when the university participation rate doubled - yet we find no significant evidence that the mean return to a degree...

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Sheepskin effects and the relationship between earnings and education : analyzing the evolution over time in Brazil

Crespo, Anna Risi Vianna; Reis, Maurício Cortez - 2015

This paper seeks to analyze trends in sheepskin effects and earnings-education relationship on the Brazilian labor market from 1982 to 2004. Using data from the Brazilian National Household Sample Survey (Pnad) are estimated earnings equations including linear years of schooling, and splines and...

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The Effects of Comprehensive Educator Evaluation and Pay Reform on Achievement

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Luo, Jin; Morgan, Andrew J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

A fundamental question for education policy is whether outcomes-based accountability including comprehensive educator evaluations and a closer relationship between effectiveness and compensation improves the quality of instruction and raises achievement. We use synthetic control methods to study...

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Do School Entry Laws Affect Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes?

Dobkin, Carlos; Ferreira, Fernando V. - 2012

Age based school entry laws force parents and educators to consider an important tradeoff. Though students who enter school early typically have poorer academic performance, on average, they stay in school longer. The popular and academic press has focused primarily on the former effect which...

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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Education, and the Returns to Schooling in Urban China

Giles, John; Park, Albert; Wang, Meiyan - 2015

This paper provides new evidence on educational disruptions caused by the Cultural Revolution and identifies the returns to schooling in urban China by exploiting individual-level variation in the effects of city-wide disruptions to education. The return to college is estimated at 49.8% using a...

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Chapter 30. The Causal Effect of Education on Earnings

Card, David - In: Handbook of labor economics : volume 3, part A, (pp. 1801-1863). 1999

This paper surveys the recent literature on the causal relationship between education and earnings. I focus on four areas of work: theoretical and econometric advances in modelling the causal effect of education in the presence of heterogeneous returns to schooling; recent studies that use...

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Late Bloomers : The Aggregate Implications of Getting Education Later in Life

Bárány, Zsófia L.; Buchinsky, Moshe; Corblet, Pauline - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

It is generally agreed upon that most individuals who acquire a college degree do so in their early 20s. Despite this consensus, we show that in the US from the 1930 birth cohort onwards a large fraction - around 20% - of college graduates obtained their degree after age 30. We explore the...

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Returns to Education in Russia: Where There Is Risky Sexual Behaviour There Is Also an Instrument

Arabsheibani, Reza; Staneva, Anita V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Finding an instrument that is orthogonal to the disturbance term in the wage equation has been a topic of great deal of debate. Recently, Chesson et al. (2006) proposed that higher discount rates are significantly associated with a range of sexual behaviours, including having sex before age of...

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Skill mismatch and returns to education in manufacturing: A case of India's textile and clothing industry

Kukreja, Prateek - 2018

coupled with unemployment or underemployment among highly educated workers. While a shortage of skills (or under-education) is … definitely a cause of concern, surplus education (or over-education) can also lead to underutilization of skills and further … the over-education/required education/undereducation (ORU) models on a cross section dataset of individuals employed (as a …

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Nash Bargaining and the Wage Consequences of Educational Mismatches

Hartog, Joop; Sattinger, Michael - 2012

of overeducation and undereducation. Workers with more education than required for their jobs are observed to suffer wage … predicts a wage penalty for overeducation and a wage reward for undereducation, and further predicts that the wage penalty will …

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