2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Micro-econometric analysis of the effects of school education and non-formal education on human capital formation
| Project/Area Number |
24730256
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Economic policy
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| Research Institution | Ritsumeikan University |
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Principal Investigator |
YASUI Kengo 立命館大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (80432459)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | 労働経済学 / 教育の経済学 |
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| Research Abstract |
The purposes of this study are to estimate returns to education by using Quantile Regression and to examine how different they are by quantiles and by cohorts. Using cross-sectional data, which existing studies in western countries also used, I found that returns of high quantiles are higher than those of low quantiles and the difference in returns is comparable in size to those of existing studies in western countries. However, when I restricted the sample to young people, there isn't a difference between returns of high quantiles and those of low quantiles. When I used the sample of old people, I found larger difference in returns than that of the whole sample. Lastly, I estimated returns to education by cohorts using young sample and I didn't find differences among cohorts.
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