Estimates of the economic return to schooling for 28 countries

By Philip A. Trostel, I. Walker, P. Woolley. 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Has China crossed the river? The evolution of wage structure in urban China during reform and retrenchment (2005, background): “Trostel et al. (2002)provide an arguably more reliable estimate of 4.8% for men and 5.6% for women from a twenty-eight country study.”
EDUCATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP SELECTION AND PERFORMANCE: A REVIEW OF THE EMPIRICAL LITERATURE (2008, positive): “, 2002), higher in the USA than in Europe (Trostel et al., 2002), and have increased over time in the USA but not elsewhere (Trostel et al.”
Understanding unequal turnout: Education and voting in comparative perspective (2010, background): “Education is the socio-economic characteristic that is most closely associated with political participation (Wolfinger and Rosenstone, 1980; Blais, 2000) and it is also one core predictor of social position and earnings (Card, 2001; Trostel et al., 2001).”
Determinants of schooling returns during transition: Evidence from Chinese cities (2005, background): “In this pa per, we measure the relative supply of education by the percentage of workers wh completed an education higher than the required lower-middle-school education, i.e 22 Trostel et al. (2002)compute separate rates of return to education for men and women.”
Education Gender Gaps in Pakistan: Is the Labor Market to Blame? (2009, methodology): “This was done following the approach outlined in Wooldridge (2002). The idea is to use the same set of instruments in the selection and instrumenting regressions (Z1 and Z2).”
Human Capital Development (2010, neutral): “…and controversial results (Pritchett 1996), several micro studies that look into the same problem have shown a consistently positive relationship between the education of the workforce and their labor productivity and earnings (Trostel, Walker, and Woolley 2002; Psacharopoulos and Patrinos 2004a).”