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positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on university-bound students shows no effects on … subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market effects may be more imminent for students leaving school directly for the labor … that central exams are indeed associated with higher earnings for students from school types directly bound for the labor …
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Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...
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Much is known about private returns to education in the form of higher earnings. Less is known about social value, over and above the private, market value. Associations between education and socially-desirable outcomes are strong, but disentangling the effect of education from other causal...
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for nearly 70,000 students. Because average age at school entry is 30 years of age, and because we have earnings data for …
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Higher education finance depends on the public's preferences for charging tuition, which may be partly based on beliefs about the university earnings premium. To test whether public support for tuition depends on earnings information, we devise survey experiments in representative samples of the...
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Lifelong learning is often promoted in ageing societies, but little is known about its returns or governments' ability to advance it. This paper evaluates the effects of a large-scale randomized field experiment issuing vouchers for adult education in Switzerland. We find no significant average...
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. The results show that substituting lacking family support by other adults can help disadvantaged children at adolescent …
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's degrees. We use individual fixed effects models on the matched sample of students and non-students from Finland to capture any …
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This paper estimates labor-market returns for students pursuing certificates or associate's degrees in eight broad … fields of study at community colleges and for-profit institutions. The data contain 400,000 students beginning their studies …
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