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The returns to education in Arkansas : evidence from the 1987 Compulsory Education Law

Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Rivera-Olvera, Angelica - 2026

This paper estimates the returns to education in Arkansas - one of the last states to extend compulsory schooling - using ACS 2023 data and the 1987 Compulsory Schooling Law (CSL) reform as an instrument. OLS estimates imply returns of 9.5-10.4 percent per year of schooling. The CSL reform...

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The returns to education in Arkansas : evidence from the 1987 compulsory education law

Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Rivera-Olvera, Angelica - 2026

This paper estimates the returns to education in Arkansas-one of the last states to extend compulsory schooling-using ACS 2023 data and the 1987 Compulsory Schooling Law (CSL) reform as an instrument. OLS estimates imply returns of 9.5-10.4 percent per year of schooling. The CSL reform increased...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015562762

Education and earnings in Arkansas

Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Rivera-Olvera, Angelica - 2025

This paper presents the first analysis for Arkansas using 2024 CPS data to examine education's impact on earnings and returns to investment. Average returns are 7.7%, higher for women (9%). University education yields even more: 8.8% overall, 8.1% for men, and 10.8% for women. With full...

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Education and earnings in Arkansas

Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Rivera-Olvera, Angelica - 2025

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Estimating returns to schooling and experience : a history of thought

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023

also for other demographic groups. The first regression-based approach is the development of the schooling-earnings … function by Becker and Chiswick (1966), which relates the logarithm of earnings, as a linear function of years invested in … human capital, with the application to years of schooling. This was expanded by Mincer (1974) to the "human capital earnings …

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Estimating returns to schooling and experience : a history of thought

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023 - Revised 11/30/2023

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Targeting foundational skills at scale : skill specificity and transfer

De Barros, Andreas; Lubozha, Theresa - 2026

Whether targeted foundational instruction yields broad, long-term human capital gains is central to education policy but largely untested. We provide causal evidence from Zambia's government-run foundational skills program in public primary schools. After two years, a randomized trial shows the...

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What explains the increase in immigrants' educational attainment in the United States?

Dziadula, Eva; Zavodny, Madeline - 2026

The educational distribution of U.S. immigrants shifted significantly to the right in recent decades as the share without a high school diploma fell and the share with a bachelor's degrees rose. This improvement coincided with a shift in immigrants' origins toward Asia and rising global...

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The long shadow : childhood poverty and the returns to education

Febriady, Ade; Postepska, Agnieszka; Angelini, Viola - 2026 - Version: March 27, 2026

This study documents substantial heterogeneity in returns to education by childhood poverty status among Indonesian wage workers aged 15-35. Individuals who grew up poor earn only 1.5 percent per additional year of schooling-less than onefourth of the 6.8 percent earned by those who were never...

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Returns to education in the United States : a comparison of OLS and Double Machine Learning methods

Helal, Al Mansor; Hiraki, Ryotaro; Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2026

This study examines the economic returns to education in the U.S. using 2024 CPS data and compares Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression with a Double Machine Learning (DML) framework incorporating models such as random forests, boosted trees, lasso, GAMs, and neural networks (MLP). Results...

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