In this paper we focus on education as a private decision to invest in “human capital” and the
estimation of the rate of return to that private investment. While the literature is replete with …

The estimation of the return to a year of schooling, both for the individual and society more
generally, has been the focus of considerable debate in the economics literature. Simple …

Low levels of education are a powerful predictor of anti-immigration sentiment. However,
there is little consensus on the interpretation of this correlation: is it causal or is it an artifact …

Using data from 12 European countries and the variation across countries and over time in
the changes of minimum school leaving age, we study the effects of the quantity of education …

The report by Professors Ángel de la Fuente and Antonio Ciccone looks into the economic
return on investment in human resources as compared with other investments. It links this …

This paper uses proxies for university quality derived from the Research Assessment
Exercise and the Teaching Quality Assurance Agency to assess the impact of university …

This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Turkey, using
the 2017 Household Labour Force Survey (latest available at the time of writing) and …

This paper uses two sets of cross-country micro datasets to analyse individuals' participation
in voluntary and community activities and organisations. Analysing countries in the …

This paper studies the ordinary least–squares (OLS) and instrumental variable (IV)
estimates of the returns to schooling for male workers in Spain. OLS estimates are often …

Статья посвящена анализу отдачи от образования как показателя доходности
инвестиций в человеческий капитал. Исследование базируется на оценивании …