The return to schooling: Estimates from a sample of young Australian twins

Miller, Paul W.; Mulvey, Charles; Martin, Nicholas G.

doi:10.1016/j.labeco.2004.10.008

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“…Finally, as the dependent variable is weekly income, a variable for part-time work is included in the model. This follows from the analysis of these data by Miller et al (2003). In this study it is shown that the large coefficient on the part-time work variable is consistent with aggregate-level information on wages in the Australian labour market.…”

Section: Labour Market Outcomessupporting

confidence: 71%

Early childhood behaviours, schooling and labour market outcomes: estimates from a sample of twins

Miller

Heath

et al. 2005

Economics of Education Review

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This paper examines the links between childhood conduct disorder problems and schooling and labour market outcomes net of genetic and environmental effects. The results show that individuals who experienced conduct disorder problems are more likely to leave school early, have poorer employment prospects and lower earnings. These findings are shown to be due to the genetic and environmental influences that are generally not considered in studies of schooling and labour market outcomes.

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Section: Labour Market Outcomessupporting

confidence: 71%

Early childhood behaviours, schooling and labour market outcomes: estimates from a sample of twins

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Heath

et al. 2005

Economics of Education Review

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“…into years of education (Miller et al 2006). We prefer to use this more recent measure, as it contains less missing values for our main estimation sample.…”

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Why Are Criminals Less Educated than Non-Criminals? Evidence from a Cohort of Young Australian Twins

Webbink

Koning

Vujić

et al. 2012

Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization

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Many studies find a strong negative association between crime and education. This raises the question whether crime reduces investment in human capital or whether education reduces criminal activity. This article investigates posed question by using fixed-effect estimation on data of Australian twins. We find early arrests (before the age of 18) both to have a strong effect on human capital accumulation, as well as strong detrimental effects on adult crime. Schooling does not have an effect on adult crime if there is variation in early arrests. However, schooling reduces crime if there is little variation in early crime. (JEL code: I2, K42).

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“…+ vft where time subscripts as well as unobserved individual-specific effects, a,, are introduced, which may be correlated with Dit, and where V-, are random error terms that are 5 This error measurement or misclassification problem is also raised in the economics of education literature. See, for example, Ashenfelter and Krueger (1994); Black, Berger, and Scott (2000); and Miller, Mulvey, and Martin (2006 (3) D^D.+^Hi where T'it represents a time-independent unsystematic error and ^ represents a timepersistent error. Substitution of equation (3) in equation (2) leads to equation (4) and clarifies the possible correlations between the error term and the language variable: i™, = **ß + (4 -^ -S,-)y + ai + vü = xü$ + Düy + (ai-yEsi) + (vü-yr'ü)…”

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Returns to Foreign Languages of Native Workers in the European Union

Ginsburgh¹,

Prieto‐Rodríguez²

2011

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Most of the literature on returns to languages is concerned with immigrants. The authors' study, which uses the European Community Household Panel Survey for the period 1994–2001, infers returns to non-native languages by native workers in nine countries of the European Union. The study differs from other studies that deal with the same issue in three respects. First, instead of using a dummy for each language, they use the ratio of the population not proficient in a given country's national language and compare the results with the more traditional approach using dummies. Second, they correct for time-independent measurement errors in self-reporting and find that the resulting IV estimates are much larger than those obtained by OLS. They also suggest that there is little room for time-persistent errors and heterogeneity and that therefore their estimates should suffer ostensibly little from unobserved ability biases. Finally, they estimate IV quantile regressions to illustrate how returns to languages vary at different points of the distribution of earnings.

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The return to schooling: Estimates from a sample of young Australian twins

Cited by 37 publications

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Early childhood behaviours, schooling and labour market outcomes: estimates from a sample of twins

Early childhood behaviours, schooling and labour market outcomes: estimates from a sample of twins

Why Are Criminals Less Educated than Non-Criminals? Evidence from a Cohort of Young Australian Twins

Returns to Foreign Languages of Native Workers in the European Union

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