Essays about: "Returns to schooling"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the words Returns to schooling.

1. 1. Skill Returns and Labor Market Mismatches - Exploring Workforce Potential in Urban Ghana and Kenya

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Matilda Persson; [2022]
   Keywords : skill returns; labor market mismatches; Ghana; Kenya; STEP; human capital; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Ghana and Kenya have both made significant efforts to strengthen the skills profile of their young and growing workforces. Raising skill levels and matching workers correctly to jobs is believed to increase productivity and reduce unemployment. READ MORE

3. 2. Returns to Education in Germany : An updated assessment of the earnings-education relationship

   University essay from Jönköping University/IHH, Nationalekonomi

   Author : Cláudio Correia Rosa; [2021]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : This work aims at answering the following questions: what is the gain in future earnings from spending one more year in schooling? Do all years in education increase one’s wages by the same amount? Will obtaining a diploma positively affect one’s future wage? By running a Mincer equation enhanced with factors such as sector of employment or gender and using the educational attainment of the parents as an instrumental variable on the 2017 wave of the German Socio-economic Panel, I am able to estimate that in Germany, returns to education are around 10%. To circumvent endogeneity and omitted variable bias, 2SLS is favoured against OLS. READ MORE

4. 3. Estimates of the Return to Schooling and Variations Between Countries and Ability Groups

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : David Sandberg; [2021]
   Keywords : return to schooling; selection bias; propensity score matching; cross-country analysis; ability; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : This study analyzes the return to schooling in 22 countries. More specifically, the effect on earnings of receiving a bachelor’s and a master’s degree is estimated by applying a propensity score matching approach on microdata. READ MORE

5. 4. Changes in economic returns to higher education in urban China, 2003–2017

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Minrui Song; [2021]
   Keywords : return to higher eudcation; Mincer function; expansion policy evaluation; Regression Discontinuity Design; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : The thesis investigates whether the higher education expansion policy, issued in 1999, China, improved individuals’ schooling and wages. The thesis mainly applies Mincer functions. Empirical results show that higher education policy increased schooling years, but it does not change the economic returns to higher education dramatically. READ MORE

6. 5. Variable Selection for Estimating Optimal Sequential Treatment Decisions Using Bayesian Networks

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statistiska institutionen

   Author : Joel Persson; [2020]
   Keywords : decision theory; causal inference; variable selection; graphical models; causal discovery; dynamic treatment regimes; dynamic programming; reinforcement learning; observational study; Mathematics and Statistics;

   Abstract : We propose a variable selection method for estimating decision rules of optimal sequential treatment assignments when the decision-relevant variables are unknown. Standard variable selection methods are insufficient in this setting since they choose covariates that are predictive of the outcome, not those that interact with the treatment on the outcome and are therefore relevant for decision-making. READ MORE