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What Factors Drive Individual Misperceptions of the Returns to Schooling in Tanzania? Some Lessons for Education Policy

Nikolov, Plamen - 2019

Evidence on educational returns and the factors that determine the demand for schooling in developing countries is extremely scarce. Building on previous studies that show individuals underestimating the returns to schooling, we use two surveys from Tanzania to estimate both the actual and...

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The Causal Effects of Adolescent School Bullying Victimisation on Later Life Outcomes

Gorman, Emma - 2019

We use rich data on a cohort of English adolescents to analyse the long-term effects of experiencing bullying victimisation in junior high school. The data contain self-reports of five types of bullying and their frequency, for three waves of the data, when the pupils were aged 13 to 16 years....

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Subjective Completion Beliefs and the Demand for Post-Secondary Education

Kunz, Johannes - 2016

The outcome of pursuing an upper or post-secondary education degree is uncertain. A student might not complete a chosen … whether to invest in post-secondary education, students must factor their probability of completing the degree into their … decision. We study the role of this uncertainty in education choices using representative survey data from Germany. Students …

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Student Earnings Expectations : Heterogeneity or Noise?

Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2016

Students' choices in education can only be based on expected outcomes. Econometric models that infer expectations based …

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Labor Market Returns to Student Loans

Bucarey, Alonso - 2020

regression discontinuity design, we show that marginally eligible students forego vocational education in favor of universities …

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The Impact of Internship Experience during Secondary Education on Schooling and Labour Market Outcomes

Neyt, Brecht - 2019

The literature on workplace learning in secondary education has mainly focussed on vocational education programmes. In … this study, we examine the impact of internship experience in secondary education on a student's schooling and early labour … sequential outcomes by means of a dynamic discrete choice model. In line with the literature on vocational education programmes …

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The Big Sort : College Reputation and Labor Market Outcomes

MacLeod, W. Bentley - 2015

Spence (1973) noted that individuals' choice of educational quantity — measured by years of schooling — may stem partially from a desire to signal their ability to the labor market. This paper asks if individuals' choice of educational quality — measured by college reputation — may...

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