I2 - Education and Research Institutions

• Heterogeneous Returns to U.S. College Selectivity and the Value of Graduate Degree Attainment

  Staff Working Paper 2013-46 Mai Seki

  Existing studies on the returns to college selectivity have mixed results, mainly due to the difficulty of controlling for selection into more-selective colleges based on unobserved ability.

  Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Labour markets JEL Code(s): C, C3, C30, I, I2, I21

• Expansion of Higher Education, Employment and Wages: Evidence from the Russian Transition

  Staff Working Paper 2013-45 Natalia Kyui

  This paper analyzes the effects of an educational system expansion on labour market outcomes, drawing upon a 15-year natural experiment in the Russian Federation. Regional increases in student intake capacities in Russian universities, a result of educational reforms, provide a plausibly exogenous variation in access to higher education.

  Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Development economics, Labour markets JEL Code(s): I, I2, I20, J, J2, J24

• Education and Self-Employment: Changes in Earnings and Wealth Inequality

  Staff Working Paper 2006-40 Yaz Terajima

  The author quantitatively studies the interaction between education and occupation choices and its implication for the relationship between the changes in earnings inequality and the changes in wealth inequality in the United States over the 1983–2001 period.

  Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Economic models, Labour markets JEL Code(s): D, D3, D31, I, I2, I21, J, J2, J23

• Educational Spillovers: Does One Size Fit All?

  Staff Working Paper 2005-10 Robert Baumann, Raphael Solomon

  In a search model of production, where agents accumulate heterogeneous amounts of human capital, an individual worker's wage depends on average human capital in the searching population.

  Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Labour markets JEL Code(s): I, I2, I29, J, J2, J24, J3, J31

• Contraintes de liquidité et capital humain dans une petite économie ouverte

  Staff Working Paper 2004-13 Florian Pelgrin

  In an overlapping-generations model that represents a small open economy, where agents live two periods, liquidity constraints lead to low economic development when the only accumulable factor is human capital.

  Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Economic models JEL Code(s): I, I2, I20, O, O4, O40