Returns to investment in education based on human capital theory have been estimated
since the late 1950s. In the 40‐plus year history of estimates of returns to investment in …

Regression, matching, control function and instrumental variables methods for recovering
the effect of education on individual earnings are reviewed for single treatments and …

Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the
role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely …

Education is critical for economic growth and poverty reduction. Quality education systems
produce the global economy's workers and expand knowledge. Schooling enables students …

Although some scholars maintain that education has little effect on intelligence quotient (IQ)
scores, others claim that IQ scores are indeed malleable, primarily through intervention in …

An important component of the long-run cost of a war is the loss of human capital suffered by
school-age children who receive less education. Austrian and German individuals who were …

We estimate the impact of compulsory schooling on earnings using changes in compulsory
schooling laws in West Germany after World War II. Most estimates in the literature indicate …

Although mobile Internet has become an integral part of people's daily life in the world today,
research on whether and to what extent mobile Internet use (MIU) affects the subjective well …

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 …

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 …