K-Returns to Education

Luigi Guiso, Luigi Pistaferri, Andreas Fagereng and Martin Holm

No 14310, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: Abstract We exploit a school reform that increased the length of compulsory schooling in Norway in the 1960s to study the causal effect of formal general education on returns on wealth (k-returns). OLS estimates reveal a strong, positive and statistically significant correlation between education and returns on individual net worth. This effect disappears in IV regressions, implying that general education has no causal effect on individual performance in capital markets, whose heterogeneity largely reflects non-acquired ability. On the contrary, we find that education causes higher returns in the labor market (l-returns). We speculate about possible rationales for this important asymmetry.

Keywords: Returns to education; Returns to capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G0 I0 J3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-01
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