Returns to schooling, ability and cognitive skills in Pakistan

Increasing Returns to Schooling by Ability?

This study uses US survey data (NLSY) and Swedish register data to estimate the relationship between returns to schooling and ability for each country separately. A significant and positive relationship is found for Sweden but not for the US. The purpose is to propose an explanation for why such differences might occur. While many studies have focused on whether credit constraints result in ine...

Economic Returns to Schooling and Skills – An Analysis of India and Pakistan

This paper investigates the economic (i.e. labour market) outcomes of education for individuals in India and Pakistan. The labour market benefits of education accrue both from education/skills promoting a person’s entry into the more lucrative occupations and by raising earnings within any given occupation. Our research looks at both these channels of effect from education onto economic well-be...

Schooling, cognitive ability and health.

A large literature documents a strong correlation between health and educational outcomes. In this paper we investigate the role of cognitive ability in the health-education nexus. Using NLSY data, we show that one standard deviation increase in cognitive ability is associated with roughly the same increase in health as two years of schooling and that cognitive ability accounts for roughly one ...

What Determines Adult Cognitive Skills ? Impacts of Pre - Schooling , Schooling

Cognitive Ability, Heterogeneity, Endogeneity and Returns to Schooling in Chile: Outcomes of the 1981 Capitation Grant Scheme

The objective of this paper is to exploit the unique information on cognitive ability contained in the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) data, for an in depth examination of the importance of cognitive skills for heterogeneous individuals using: (a) a quantile regression methodology which allows for an interaction between schooling and cognitive skills and (b) Instrumental Variables es...