Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008-07-08)
This paper reports estimates of the UK “college premium” for young graduates
across successive cohorts from large cross section datasets for the UK pooled from
1994 to 2006 - a period when the higher education participation ...
Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2007-06-12)
This paper provides findings from the UK Labour Force Surveys from 1993 to 2003
on the financial private returns to a degree – the "college premium". The data covers a decade when the university participation rate doubled ...
Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2007-06-12)
The widely held view that separation has adverse effects on children has been
the basis of important policy interventions. While a small number of analyses have been concerned with selection into divorce, no studies have ...
It is clear that education has an important effect on wages paid in the labour market
However it not clear whether this is due to the role that education plays in raising the
productivity of workers (the human capital ...
Education has an important effect on wages but it not clear whether this is because education raises productivity or because education is simply a signal of ability. We implement a number of existing tests for discriminating ...
It is clear that education has an important effect on wages paid in the labour market
However it not clear whether this is due to the role that education plays in raising the
productivity of workers (the human capital ...
Governments, over much of the developed world, make significant financial
transfers to parents with dependent children. For example, in the US the
recently introduced Child Tax Credit (CTC), which goes to almost all ...
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