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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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(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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(University College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2002-04-19)
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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. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2002-06-14)We apply a new estimator to the measurement of the economic returns to education. We control for endogenous education, unobserved ability and measurement error using only the natural heteroscedasticty of wages and education ...
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2007-06-12)This paper provides estimates of the private financial return to education based on large samples of monozygotic (MZ) and dizygotic (DZ) twins which we obtain from Danish population registers. Our estimation exploits the ...
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(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 ...
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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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