Arbeitspapier
What drives social returns to education? A meta-analysis
Education can generate important externalities that contribute towards economic growth and convergence. In this paper, we study the drivers of such externalities by conducting the first meta-analysis of the social returns to education literature. We analyse over 1,000 estimates from 31 articles published since 1993 that cover 15 countries. Our results indicate that: 1) spillovers slow down with economic development; 2) tertiary schooling and schooling dispersion increase spillovers; 3) spillovers are smaller under fixed-effects and IV estimators but larger when measured at the firm level; and 4) there is publication bias (but not citation bias).
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: GLO Discussion Paper ; No. 706
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Returns to Education
Education: Government Policy
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Instrumental Variables (IV) Estimation
- Thema
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returns to education
education externalities
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Cui, Ying
Martins, Pedro S.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Global Labor Organization (GLO)
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Essen
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2020
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Cui, Ying
- Martins, Pedro S.
- Global Labor Organization (GLO)
Entstanden
- 2020