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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000

We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …

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How risky is college investment?

Hendricks, Lutz; Leukhina, Oksana - 2015

This paper is motivated by the fact that nearly half of US college students drop out without earning a bachelor's degree. Its objective is to quantify how much uncertainty college entrants face about their graduation outcomes. To do so, we develop a quantitative model of college choice. The...

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How equal are educational opportunities? : family background and student achievement in Europe and the United States

Woessmann, Ludger - 2004

This paper estimates the effects of family-background characteristics on student performance in the US and 17 Western European school systems. Family background has strong effects both in Europe and the United States, remarkably similar in size. France and Flemish Belgium achieve the most...

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The return to college : selection bias and dropout risk

Hendricks, Lutz; Leukhina, Oksana - 2014

This paper estimates the effect of graduating from college on lifetime earnings. Motivated by the fact that nearly half of all college students fail to earn a bachelor's degree, we study a model of risky college completion. The central idea is that students drop out of college mainly because...

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Assessing the returns to education in Georgia

Khitarishvili, Tamar - 2010

The economic returns to education in transition countries have been extensively evaluated in the literature. The … present study contributes to this literature by estimating the returns to education in Georgia during the last transition … period 2000–04. We find very low returns to education in Georgia and little evidence of an increasing trend in the returns …

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Consumption and wage humps in a life-cycle model with education

Kraft, Holger; Munk, Claus; Seifried, Frank Thomas; … - 2014

education, which lowers future wages, and the present value of foregone wages decreases with age. Consumption is hump shaped …

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The impact of cannabis use on short-term educational outcomes

Mart, Joaquim; Perini, Lionel - 2013

heterogeneity into account when assessing the impact of substance use on education. …

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Creativity, education or what? : on the measurement of regional human capital

Bode, Eckhardt; Pérez-Villar, Lucia - 2014

creative occupations rather than education. Consistent with Florida’s notion of creativity, it suggests a microfoundation that …

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How risky is college investment?

Hendricks, Lutz; Leukhina, Oksana - 2015

This paper is motivated by the fact that nearly half of U.S. college students drop out without earning a bachelor's degree. Its objective is to quantify how much uncertainty college entrants face about their graduation outcomes. To do so, we develop a quantitative model of college choice. The...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010473162

Disruptive school peers and student outcomes

Kristoffersen, Jannie H. G.; Kraegpøth, Morten Visby; … - 2015

This paper estimates how peers' achievement gains are affected by the presence of potentially disruptive and emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate variation in peer composition in the receiving school-cohort. We...

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