education, experience and industry variables have important, variable and differing impacts upon both participation and income …

Education is argued to be an important driver of the decision to start a business. The measurement of its influence … the US. The effect of education on the decision to become self-employed is found to be strongly positive, much higher than … the estimated effect in case no instrumental variables are used. That is, the higher the respondent's level of education …

education on non-cognitive skills is less well understood. This study investigates the impact of extending compulsory education … Bank’s 2012/2013 initiative, we analyze the within-country variation in compulsory education years. Our findings indicate … that increased compulsory education decreases emotional stability, grit, hostile attribution bias, patience, and …

education on noncognitive skills is less well understood. This study investigates the impact of extending compulsory education … Bank's 2012/2013 initiative, we analyze the within-country variation in compulsory education years. Our findings indicate … that increased compulsory education decreases emotional stability, grit, hostile attribution bias, patience, and …

The US experienced two dramatic changes in the structure of education in a fifty year period. The first was a large …

paradata. Fraction answered captures a third of the effect of cognitive ability on wages and education. We provide a simple …

strategies to higher education. The starting hypothesis of this study is that students consider the expected utility of their …-priced education. The results of this paper confirm that both expected wages and admission probabilities determine students …

Franziska Bernadette Hampf prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education … of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays investigating various aspects of the link between education …