Education inequalities

C Farquharson, S McNally, I Tahir - Oxford Open Economics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Education is one of the most important predictors of people's life chances, shaping outcomes
like work and pay, health, and wealth. Explaining inequalities in educational outcomes, as …

The causal effects of education on health outcomes in the UK Biobank

NM Davies, M Dickson, G Davey Smith… - Nature human …, 2018 - nature.com
Educated people are generally healthier, have fewer comorbidities and live longer than
people with less education,–. Much of the evidence about the effects of education comes …

Does longer compulsory schooling affect mental health? Evidence from a British reform

M Avendano, A De Coulon, V Nafilyan - Journal of Public Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, we examine whether longer compulsory schooling has a causal effect on
mental health, exploiting a 1972 reform which raised the minimum school leaving age from …

More education, less volatility? The effect of education on earnings volatility over the life cycle

JM Delaney, PJ Devereux - Journal of Labor Economics, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
Much evidence suggests that having more education leads to higher earnings in the labor
market. However, there is little evidence about whether having more education causes …

Dabbled vs sustained self-employment: exploring educational returns within dynamic employment groups

H Hussein, M Haj Youssef, S Nolan - Higher Education, Skills and …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose This study examines the returns from education for three distinct groups: always
employees, dabblers in self-employment and sustained self-employed individuals. We aim …

Returns to higher education in China–evidence from the 1999 higher education expansion using a fuzzy regression discontinuity

F Dai, F Cai, Y Zhu - Applied Economics Letters, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
China experienced a 47% expansion in higher education enrolment between 1998 and
1999 and a sixfold expansion in the decade to 2008. Using a fuzzy discontinuity in the …

Gender differences in the lifecycle benefits of compulsory schooling policies

SC De New, S Schurer, D Sulzmaier - European Economic Review, 2021 - Elsevier
We estimate the lifecycle benefits of policies that raise the minimum school leaving age
(MSLA). Using a difference-in-differences method, we estimate the causal impact of two …

Returns to education in the life course

M Gebel, G Heineck - Research handbook on the sociology of …, 2019 - elgaronline.com
Education permeates our lives–first in childhood and the teenage years, later in vocational
training or tertiary education, and finally, though less dense, in adulthood through on-and off …

The causal effects of education on health, mortality, cognition, well-being, and income in the UK Biobank

NM Davies, M Dickson, G Davey Smith… - bioRxiv, 2016 - biorxiv.org
Educated people are generally healthier, have fewer comorbidities and live longer than
people with less education. Previous evidence about the effects of education come from …

Returns to Education: Individuals

F Buscha, M Dickson - Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and …, 2023 - Springer
Study of the “returns to education” has been one of the most productive areas of research in
labor economics for the last seven decades, and it is very likely that it will continue to be a …