Aydemir, Abdurrahman Bekir and Kırdar, Murat G. (2017) Low wage returns to schooling in a developing country: evidence from a major policy reform in Turkey. (Accepted/In Press)
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/obes.12174
Abstract
In this paper, we estimate returns to schooling for young men and women in Turkey using the exogenous and substantial variation in schooling across birth cohorts brought about by the 1997 reform of compulsory schooling within a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. We estimate that the return from an extra year of schooling is about 7-8% for women and an imprecisely estimated 2-2.5% for men. The low level of the estimates for men contrasts starkly with those estimated for other developing countries. We identify several reasons why returns to schooling are low for men and why they are higher for women in our context. In particular, the policy alters the schooling distributions of men and women differently, thus the average causal effect puts a higher weight on the causal effect of schooling at higher grade levels for women than for men.
Item Type: | Article |
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > Academic programs > Economics Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
Depositing User: | Abdurrahman Aydemir |
Date Deposited: | 18 May 2017 11:37 |
Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2017 16:06 |
URI: | https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/32225 |
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