We study the evolution of monetary returns to high school education and their heterogeneity after the labor market entry using linked survey and administrative labor market data from Germany. By exploiting academic track school openings for cohorts from 1950–1985, we find sizeable monetary...

We study the evolution of monetary returns to high school education and their heterogeneity after the labor market entry using linked survey and administrative labor market data from Germany. By exploiting academic track school openings for cohorts from 1950–1985, we find sizeable monetary...

Many studies in economics use instruments or treatments which combine a set of exogenous shocks with other predetermined variables by a known formula. Examples include shift-share instruments and measures of social or spatial spillovers. We review recent econometric tools for this setting, which...

This paper aims to analyze the impact of corruption on firm innovation in Portugal, using data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys on 1062 firms for 2019. We employ regression analysis and instrumental variables techniques to account for endogeneity in the corruption variable. Our results...