. Choices of higher-education programs and of occupations do not appear major channels of this result. …

market, as well as with lower unemployment. -- central exit exams ; earnings ; unemployment ; Germany …

on the conceptual framework of an education production function, we cover evidence on child, parent, and school inputs …

The gap in university enrollment by parental education is large and persistent in many countries. In our representative … university education for their children. The latter are more likely to underestimate returns and overestimate costs of university … returns and costs explains educational inequality in Germany. …

education in Switzerland. We find no significant average effects of voucher-induced adult education on earnings, employment, and … subsequent education one year after treatment. But effects are heterogeneous: Low- education individuals are most likely to … profit from adult education, but least likely to use the voucher. The findings cast doubt on the effectiveness of existing …

economic institutions and quantitative measures of tertiary education cannot. Under the growth model estimates and plausible … evidence on which education policy reforms may be able to bring about the simulated improvements in educational outcomes …. -- education ; growth ; OECD ; cognitive skills ; projection …