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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Returns to Education"”.
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Returns to Education: Evidence from the UK
… which address separate questions in relation to labor economics and economics of education <br/><b><br/></b><b>Wage Penalty of Vocational Education: Evidence from the UK (Chapter 3) </b><br/>In this chapter, I examine the difference in wages between academic and vocational education in the UK …
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Convexities and the returns to education in South Africa
This paper explores the rate of return to education in South Africa with special focus on the pattern of returns to different levels of schooling. Although a basic assumption of neoclassical human capital theory is that returns to education diminish, past analysis for South Africa suggests that …
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Gender and education : a microeconometric analysis of returns to education in Nigeria
… long-standing discourse on the economic value of education, this thesis investigates whether education continues to pay off despite persistent gender wage differentials in Nigeria’s segmented labour market. Using a household-level cross-sectional micro dataset from the Living Standards Measurement …
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Returns to education in the Nevada hotel industry: Incentives for education in Nevada
The present study estimates returns to education in Nevada based on ideas found in human capital theory to provide insight into the incentives facing students or potential students in Nevada. Four industry/location categories were constructed using data from the Current Population Survey: the Las …
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THREE ESSAYS ON RETURNS TO EDUCATION, HEALTH AND THE SPATIAL WAGE CURVE IN TURKEY
… comprises three papers on wage and health returns to education and spatial wage curve in Turkey. The second and third chapters make use of the exogenous variations generated by the 1997 Eight-Year Compulsory Schooling Law and the accompanying middle- school class openings to estimate …
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Returns to education: The University of Illinois-People's Republic of China visiting scholars program
… group of their peers who had not had a foreign educational experience.
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DIFFERENTIAL RETURNS TO EDUCATION ACROSS COGNITIVE ABILITY LEVELS: EVIDENCE FROM CEBU LONGITUDINAL HEALTH AND NUTRITION SURVEY DATA
This thesis estimates the returns to education in association with childhood cognitive ability for Filipino youth using the Cebu Longituditional Health and Nutrition Survey Data. After reviewing wide range of literature on returns to education and cognitive ability, we find that limited studies …
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Measuring the Burden of Disease, the Structure of Income, and Returns to Education in Rural West Africa
Die vorliegende Dissertation will einen Beitrag zur Messung von Krankheitsbelastung, Einkommensstruktur und Ausbildungsrenditen im ländlichen Westafrika leisten. Ihr Forschungsgegenstand ist die Erhebung und Analyse von Mortalitäts-, Morbiditäts- und sozio-ökonomischen Daten im Gesundheitsdistrikt …
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Structural adjustments to the farm labour force, 1994-2011 : a Mincerian exploration of returns to education and experience
… unskilled workers in South Africa. However, due to the decline in the sector's contribution to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (as a result of the reduction in agricultural production and an increase in the contribution of the manufacturing and services sectors) (Department of Agriculture, 2010), …
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Essays on Labour Market in Developing Countries
… from Post-Apartheid South Africa joint with Sara Tonini, investigates how ethnic diversity amongst black South Africans affects their employment opportunities in the post-Apartheid era. We find that ethnic diversity has a positive impact on the employment rate of the black South Africans, and it …
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Human Capital Investment and Employment in Iran: The Importance of Urban-Rural Distinctions
This thesis explores factors related to private investment in education in Iran. All of the three empirical chapters pay particular attention to the very different findings obtained when considering urban versus rural contexts and the implications this has for gender in Iran. For the first two …
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Empirical Essays on the Economics of Education.
… three self-contained essays on the economics of education. Chapter 2 explores a secondary school admission policy reform and employs repeat sales data to examine the relationship between house prices and school quality. I use the reform to generate exogenous variation in school quality, and …
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Education and health care in developing countries
This thesis is a collection of three essays on education and health in developing countries. Chapter 1 shows that increasing perceived returns to education strengthens incentives for schooling when agents underestimate the actual returns. I conducted a field experiment in Madagascar to study …
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ESSAYS ON THE LONG –RUN IMPACTS OF THE GREAT CHINESE FAMINE ON HUMAN CAPITAL
… dataset-2004 MEDOW. By comparing the health and education outcomes of pre-famine (1956-1958), famine (1959-1961) and post-famine (1963-1965) cohorts, I find that the long run impact of famine is not gender neutral. Exposure to famine in utero and in early childhood significantly reduces height …
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Essays on Development in Sub-Saharan African Countries
… regions in the world, crop production and education remain two of the most important topics for the development of sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. This dissertation is composed of three chapters that investigate the economic returns to education (Chapter 1 and 2) and assess the policy …
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Poverty and inequality measurement and determinants : the case of Zambia
This thesis investigates the role of education, employment and household structure in explaining poverty and inequality in Zambia between 1991 and 2004. This period was characterized by macroeconomic and structural adjustment reforms that led to declining public sector employment due to …
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Essays in Economics of Education
… on what they learn in school has been unsatisfactory. Estimates from regional student assessments across the world reveal that millions of school going children have failed to acquire even the most basic literacy and numeracy skills. This has serious policy implications as recent studies have …
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The Role of Virginia Tech in Human Capital Formation
Virginia Tech contributes significantly to social and economic progress at the regional, state and national levels through its teaching, research and public service activities. The study is motivated by the current debate on the appropriate level of support for higher education in Virginia's …
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Three essays on unemployment, self-selection and wage differentials
… self-selection and the market for higher education. It explores how the steady trends in increased tuition costs, college enrollment and returns to education might be related to the quality of college graduates. The model shows that the signaling role of education might be an important, …
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