Education Spillovers within the Workplace
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Education Spillovers within the Workplace. / Bentsen, Kristian Hedeager; Munch, Jakob Roland; Schaur, Georg.
In: Economics Letters, Vol. 175, 02.2019, p. 57-59.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Education Spillovers within the Workplace
AU - Bentsen, Kristian Hedeager
AU - Munch, Jakob Roland
AU - Schaur, Georg
PY - 2019/2
Y1 - 2019/2
N2 - Education policies depend in part on the presence of externalities, but very little evidence exists to confirm the existence of such externalities. In this paper we investigate if there are spillover effects from education within peer groups at the workplace. We estimate the effect of increasing the share of higher educated workers in close peer groups on wages, using a rich data source linking workers to workplaces and specific occupations. Our empirical approach accounts for the endogenous sorting of workers into peer groups and workplaces, and, at the same time avoids the reflection problem. In our main specification we find statistically significant but economically small peer effects across all occupations.
AB - Education policies depend in part on the presence of externalities, but very little evidence exists to confirm the existence of such externalities. In this paper we investigate if there are spillover effects from education within peer groups at the workplace. We estimate the effect of increasing the share of higher educated workers in close peer groups on wages, using a rich data source linking workers to workplaces and specific occupations. Our empirical approach accounts for the endogenous sorting of workers into peer groups and workplaces, and, at the same time avoids the reflection problem. In our main specification we find statistically significant but economically small peer effects across all occupations.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Education externality
KW - Peer effects
KW - Matched worker–firm data
U2 - 10.1016/j.econlet.2018.11.025
DO - 10.1016/j.econlet.2018.11.025
M3 - Journal article
VL - 175
SP - 57
EP - 59
JO - Economics Letters
JF - Economics Letters
SN - 0165-1765
ER -
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