A second chance? Labor market returns to adult education using school reforms

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Roughly one third of a cohort drop out of high school across OECD countries, and developing effective tools to address prime-aged high school dropouts is a key policy question. We leverage high quality Norwegian register data, and for identification we exploit reforms enabling access to high school for adults above the age of 25. The paper finds that considerable increases in high school completion and beyond among women lead to higher earnings, increased employment, and decreased fertility. As male education remains unchanged by the reforms, later life education reduces the pre-existing gender earnings gap by a considerable fraction.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IFS Working Paper ; No. W20/28

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Returns to Education ; Education: Government Policy ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
• Thema: Adult Education ; Returns to Education ; Fertility ; Gender inequality

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Bennett, Patrick ; Blundell, Richard W. ; Salvanes, Kjell G.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
• (wo): London
• (wann): 2020

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.1920/wp.ifs.2020.2820
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/242887
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ