TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bennett, Patrick
AU  - Blundell, Richard
AU  - Salvanes, Kjell G.
        TI  - A Second Chance? Labor Market Returns to Adult Education Using School Reforms
        PY  - 2020/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 13592
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp13592
        AB  - Roughly one third of a cohort drop out of high school across OECD countries, and developing effective tools to address prime-aged high school dropouts is a key policy question. We leverage high quality Norwegian register data, and for identification we exploit reforms enabling access to high school for adults above the age of 25. The paper finds that considerable increases in high school completion and beyond among women lead to higher earnings, increased employment, and decreased fertility. As male education remains unchanged by the reforms, later life education reduces the pre-existing gender earnings gap by a considerable fraction.
        KW  - adult education
KW  - returns to education
KW  - fertility
KW  - gender inequality
        ER  -