The economic return to schooling in Ireland |
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Authors: | Tim Callan Colm Harmon |
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Affiliation: | a Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, Ireland;b University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland |
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Abstract: | Recent developments in the schooling returns literature have focused on exploiting alternative instruments. A number of instruments are available in an Irish dataset, including parental background variables (social class and educational attainment), and variables measuring changes in the schooling system (the introduction of free secondary schooling in the mid-1960s, accompanied by a rapid rise in educational participation rates, and the raising of the school-leaving age in 1972). The results suggest, however, that OLS estimates of rates of return are not significantly downward biased as would be suggested by recent arguments in the literature. |
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Keywords: | Schooling Economic return Ireland |
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