This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Turkey, using the 2017 Household Labor Force Survey and alternative methodologies. The analysis uses the 1997 education reform of increasing compulsory education by three years as an instrument. This results in a private rate of return on the order of 16 percent for higher education and a social return of 10 percent. Using the number of children younger than age 15 in the...
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2019/03/21
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS8789
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2019/03/21
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Returns to Investment in Education : The Case of Turkey
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return to education