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Does education raise productivity, or just reflect it?

Chevalier, Arnaud ; Harmon, Colm ; Walker, Ian ; Zhu, Yu (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 ...
Does it pay to attend a prestigious university?

Chevalier, Arnaud ; Conlon, Gavan (University College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2003-07)

This paper provides evidence of heterogeneity in the returns to higher education in the UK. Attending the most prestigious universities leads to a wage premium of up to 6% for males. The rise in participation in higher ...
The impact of parental income and education on the schooling of their children

Chevalier, Arnaud ; Harmon, Colm ; O'Sullivan, Vincent ; Walker, Ian (University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2010-07-01)

This paper addresses the intergenerational transmission of education and investigates the extent to which early school leaving (at age 16) may be due to variations in parental background. An important contribution of the ...
Monotonicity and the Roy model

Chevalier, Arnaud ; Lanot, Gauthier (University College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2002-05)

In this note we study the implications on a bivariate normal Roy Model of two sets of monotonicity hypotheses proposed recently by Manski and Pepper (2000). In that simple context, we show that these hypotheses imply strong ...
Mother's education and birth weight

Chevalier, Arnaud ; O'Sullivan, Vincent (University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2007-06-12)

Low birth weight has considerable short and long-term consequences and leads to high costs to the individual and society even in a developed economy. Low birth weight is partially a consequence of choices made by the ...
A multi-country study of inter-generational educational mobility

Chevalier, Arnaud ; Denny, Kevin ; McMahon, Dorren (University College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2003)

This paper analyses intergenerational educational mobility using survey data for twenty countries. We find that a number of interesting patterns emerge. Estimating a measure of mobility as movement and an index of mobility ...
Sheepskin or Prozac : the causal effect of education on mental health

Chevalier, Arnaud ; Feinstein, Leon (University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2007-06-08)

Mental illness is associated with large costs to individuals and society. Education improves various health outcomes but little work has been done on mental illness. To obtain unbiased estimates of the effect of education ...
Students’ academic self perception

Chevalier, Arnaud ; Gibbons, Steve ; Thorpe, Andy ; Hoskins, Sherria (University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2007-09-24)

Participation rates in higher education differ persistently between some groups in society. Using two British datasets we investigate whether this gap is rooted in students' misperception of their own and other's ability, ...
Wage policy, employee turnover and productivity

Chevalier, Arnaud ; Siebert, W. S. ; Viitanen, Tarja (University College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2003-05-31)

In this paper, we are interested in the effect of pay incentives on labour turnover and productivity. Particularly we use personnel data from a panel of 400 shops from a UK retail chain. The firm uses perfectly flat ...