Purpose –The purpose of this paper is to revisit the debate on the contribution of higher education (HE) to the economy … stakeholder groups, the economic value of a university education can best be explained with the concept of “graduate propensity to … the propensity to learn, which is the most important economic outcome of a university education. Originality/value – The …

mediated with STE. Originality/value – The results provide important findings to researchers and management of higher education …

> Human capital obtained through education has been shown to be one of the strongest drivers of entrepreneurship performance … value of other input factors, such as (knowledge) capital and labor is likely to be affected by the education level of the … possible stakeholders in the entrepreneur’s venture. The education distribution of the (local) population may thus shape the …

We argue that promoting education may be a means to reduceincome inequality. When workers of different skill levels … areimperfect substitutes in production, an increase in the level ofhuman capital in the economy reduces the return to education … atrade-off between the distortions of taxes on effort and the distortionsof education subsidies on the investment in human …

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

We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We … college education cannot universally be considered an insurance against unpredictability of wages. One conclusion is …

considerable difficulties in the Dutch labour market. The most remarkable conclusion is the irrelevance of education for socio …

entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …

the leading principle of the Dutch education system since the beginning of the 20th century. Based on panel data for the … Netherlands we show that there is a relation between competition and student achievement in upper secondary education, but that it …