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(University College Dublin, School of Economics, 2003-09)
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(University College Dublin; Centre for Economic Research, 2003-06)
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(University College Dublin. School Of Economics, 2003-02-14)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2003-05)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2003-01)We examine the ability of the Expansionary Fiscal Contraction (EFC) hypothesis to explain the performance of of OECD economies during times of crisis. We find some limited evidence in its favour: if public consumption is ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2003-01)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. School of Economics, 2003-01)We analyse how progressive taxation and education subsidies affect schooling decisions when the returns to education are stochastic. We use the theory of real options to solve the problem of education choice in a dynamic, ...
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(University College Dublin. School of EconomicsUniversity College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2003-08)In this paper a rich and innovative dataset, the International Adult Literacy Survey, is used to examine the impact of functional literacy on earnings. We show that the estimated return to formal education is sensitive to ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2003-05)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 ...
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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 ...