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Chen, Qihui – Education Economics, 2021
This paper estimates peer effects on children's school entry age, using a dataset on 4,165 children from rural northwestern China (Gansu province). Instrumental-variable estimation, exploiting variations in (older) peers' home-to-school distance to identify the effect of their school entry age, reveals that a one-year increase in (older) peers'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, School Entrance Age, Age Differences
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Dilmaghani, Maryam – Education Economics, 2019
The present study assesses how education impacts religiosity. Education is instrumented using the changes in the Canadian school leaving age laws. The data are from the Canadian General Social Surveys collected between 1990 and 2011. The effects of education on both affiliation status and religious attendance are considered. Education is found to…
Descriptors: Religion, Beliefs, Catholics, Educational Legislation
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Carroll, David; Tani, Massimiliano – Education Economics, 2015
We analyse the relationship between job search and over-education for recent Australian bachelor degree graduates using data from the 2011 Beyond Graduation Survey. Results from panel estimation suggest that jobs found through university careers offices are associated with lower probability of over-education relative to jobs found through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Search Methods, Educational Attainment, Evidence
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Gonzalez, Pilar; Santos, Luis Delfim; Santos, Maria Clementina – Education Economics, 2009
Important changes characterize the recent evolution of the schooling of workers in Portugal. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the consequences of those changes in the gender wage gap. In particular, we analyze and compare the way that this process has evolved in the groups of young workers and older workers. Our findings suggest that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Gender Discrimination, Age Differences
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Penn, Roger; Berridge, Damon – Education Economics, 2008
The main aim of this paper is to identify those school-level and locality-level factors that significantly affect each of the three stages in a young adult's educational trajectory in North West England: GCSE results, track taken at age 16 and "A"-level scores. By applying three-level models to data collected as part of the EFFNATIS…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Educational Attainment, Influences
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Stenberg, Anders; Wikstrom, Magnus – Education Economics, 2004
This paper studies the determinants of age-specific employment rates among Swedish males, focusing on the effect of education on employment. We use cohort specific data for the time period 1984-1996 covering male cohorts aged 21-45. It is found that aggregate age-group-specific employment rates increase with the proportion of the cohort with an…
Descriptors: Males, Foreign Countries, Academic Degrees, Higher Education