This paper surveys the trends in gender gaps in education, their causes and potential policy implications. I show that … tertiary education students and graduates. Existing evidence suggests that this pattern is a result of a combination of … increasing returns to education and lower female effort costs of education. Widening gender gap in education combined with recent …

Formal education is correlated with entrepreneurial activity and success, but correlation does not indicate causation …. Education and entrepreneurship are both influenced by other related factors. The current study estimates causal effects of … formal education on entrepreneurship outcomes by instrumenting for an individual's years of schooling using cohort mean years …

reform losers were those in construction and agriculture, those who attained only primary or vocational education (who … actually experience a decrease in the returns to their education) as well as those younger workers which acquired most of their … education after the collapse of communism (that is, after the main reforms were in place) …

of language proficiency on over-education, particularly, whether individuals with deficient language skills tend to … controls for individuals' socio-demographic characteristics reveals the opposite: better language knowledge decreases over-education …

Evaluations of adults in formal education (AE) are typically based on earnings measured 5-10 years after program …

Students are admitted into higher education based on their past performance. This paper compares two measures of past … education programmes. We find that teacher scores predict students' performance in higher education more accurately, and its … on the role that high school scores and admission exams should have for access and performance in higher education …

Further Education colleges are a key way in which 16-19 year olds acquire skills in the UK (much like US Community …

adult education activities. In fact, individualism is more important in explaining adult skill formation than any other …