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Browsing by Subject "Education--Economic aspects"
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(Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2002-02)This Paper examines cross-country variations in the return to schooling for men and women and considers some of the stylised facts that have emerged from the extensive international literature on private returns to schooling. ...
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(University College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2002-10-18)We extend the standard human capital earnings function to include dispersion in the return to schooling by treating the return as a random coefficient. If the rapid expansion in participation in higher education has been ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2001-08)In this paper we extend the standard human capital earnings function to include dispersion in the rate of return to schooling by treating the return as a random coefficient. One motivation is that if the increase in supply ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2003-01)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 ...
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(Blackwell, 2004-11)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 ...
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(University College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2002-12-23)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 ...
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(Economic and Social Research Institute, 1997-06)
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008-12-15)The internal rate of return to schooling is a fundamental economic parameter that is often used to assess whether expenditure on education should be increased or decreased. This paper considers alternative approaches to ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1997-08)
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(Elsevier Science, 1999-11)Recent developments in the schooling returns literature have focused on exploiting alternative instruments. A number of instruments are available in an Irish dataset, including parental background variables (social class ...
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(Edward Elgar, 2001)
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(Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2000-04-07)This paper exploits an unusual policy reform that had the effect of reducing the direct cost of schooling in Ireland in the late 1960’s. This gave rise to an increased level of schooling but with effects that vary substantially ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2000-04)This paper exploits an unusual policy reform that had the effect of reducing the direct cost of schooling in Ireland in the late 1960’s. This gave rise to an increased level of schooling but with effects that vary ...
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Ireland (Edward Elgar, 2001)Education and Earnings in Europe is based on a two year pan-European research programme and presents an in-depth analysis of the returns to education in Europe. The book begins with a critical review of the literature which ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2012-09)This paper provides among the first rigorous estimates of the labor-market returns to community college certificates and diplomas, as well as estimating the returns to the more commonly-studied associate’s degrees. Using ...
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(Institute for Financial Studies, 1996-08)This paper estimates the impact of schooling on the earnings of men. It is important to know what the return to educational investments might be since a high return to such investments may imply that individuals, for ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1996-09)The existing literature now features many examples where log wages are linear in years of schooling and which effectively attempt to correct for least squares bias using instruments based essentially on a single variable. ...
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(Elsevier Science, 1999-04)We explore the possibility that different instruments may affect different margins of the schooling distribution, and consistent with recent evidence we find a large, significant downward bias in the least squares estimate ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-04-07)There is a well established socioeconomic gradient in educational attainment, despite much effort in recent decades to address this inequality. This study evaluates a university access program that provides financial, ...
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