Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/245487 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 9306
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Developing effective tools to address prime-aged high school dropouts is a key policy question. We leverage high quality Norwegian register data to examine the labour market outcomes of expanding access to adult workers and exploit a large policy reform which greatly enabled access to high school education for adults. Our focus is on women and the results show a large and significant increase in education investments with a strong rise in the rate of college completion, leading to higher earnings, increased employment, and decreased fertility. They also point to an effective policy to reduce the gender earnings gap.
Subjects: 
adult education
returns to education
fertility
gender inequality
JEL: 
I26
I28
J13
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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