Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/96688 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8110
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
While uncertainty abounds in almost any decision on investment in schooling, it is mostly ignored in research and virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for risk, discusses the tough disentanglement of heterogeneity and risk, surveys the analytical models, laments the absence of a good workhorse model and points out the challenges worth tackling: document ex ante risk that investors face, develop a tractable and malleable analytical model and integrate the option of consumption smoothing in analytical and empirical work. Hedging labour market risk in the stock market can be safely ignored.
Subjects: 
schooling
risk
human capital
labour supply
JEL: 
I21
J22
J24
J31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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