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In developing countries, rising incomes, increased demand for more skilled labor, and government investments of … rates and completed years of schooling. Nevertheless, in many countries substantial education gaps persist between rich and …
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Grade retention offers students a chance to catch up with unmastered material but also leads to less labor-market experience by delaying graduation and labor-market entry. This is the first paper to quantify this trade-off, using an exit exam cutoff of Dutch academic secondary schools, where...
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increase average educational attainment; however, these benefits are driven by an increase in college training, not in the …
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enter higher education and/or the formal labor market (5.4 million graduates). I compare graduates within the same secondary … school and cohorts to estimate the premium of higher education. I estimate the sheepskin effect by exploiting the phenomenum … years of formal labor market experience. I also find high positive correlations between the quality of higher education …
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