Over-Education and the Skills of UK Graduates During the early Nineties the proportion of UK graduates doubled over a very short period of time. This paper investigates the effect of the expansion on early labour market attainment, focusing on over-education. We define over-education by combining occupation codes and a self-reported measure for the appropriateness of the match between qualifica...

Does Schooling Affect Health Behavior? Evidence from the Educational Expansion in Western Germany During the postwar period German states pursued policies to increase the share of young Germans obtaining a university entrance diploma (Abitur) by building more academic track schools, but the timing of educational expansion differed between states. This creates exogenous variation in the availabi...

the aim of this research was to compare the influence of the use of information technology (it) on creative thinking of students of computer (software branch) and education (primary school education) in islamic azad university of zanjan. the population included all the male and female students of software engineering and primary school education during the semester of 90-91, amounting to 100 pa...

In order to study the problems of long-term and short-term interactional mechanism between scale evolution of higher education and economic growth in China, authors in this article are going to put forward the method of cointegration. Through selection of enrollment and actual GDP data per capita in China from 1972 to 2007, it is discovered from the empirical result that: (1) the log sequences ...

Abstract This paper explores whether the expansion of higher education can influence attitudes regarding gender norms. I evaluate impact China’s since 1999. The results show that reform has significantly increased educational attainment for both women and men. However, women’s progressive views on roles are negatively affected following expansion. erosion egalitarian ideology be attributed to f...

We examine the teacher labour market in China using 2005 mini-Census, context of transformation world's largest education system. first document a significant increase not only quantity, but also quality teachers during 1990–2005. Instrumental Variables results based on natural experiment substantial expansion higher 1992/93 indicate large positive causal effect supply teachers. Consistent with...