Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Büchner Charlotte 
Author-Name: Smits Wendy 
Author-Name: Velden Rolf van der
Author-workplace-name: ROA rm
Title: Education, cognitive skills and earnings of males and females
Abstract: This paper analyzes the relationship between cognitive skills, measured at age 12, andearnings of males and females at the age of 35, conditional on their attained educationallevel. Employing a large data set that combines a longitudinal school cohort survey withincome data from Dutch national tax files, our findings show that cognitive skills andspecifically math skills are rewarded on the labor market, but more for females thanfor males. The main factor driving this result is that cognitive skills appear to be betterpredictors of schooling outcomes for males than for females. Once males have achievedthe higher levels of education, they more often choose programs with high earningperspectives like economics and engineering, even if their level of math skills is relativelylow.
Keywords: labour market entry and occupational careers; 
Series: Research Memoranda
Creation-Date: 2012
Number: 002
File-URL: http://digitalarchive.maastrichtuniversity.nl/fedora/objects/guid:bd9e981d-7537-4449-9993-7ff86f5a6929/datastreams/ASSET1/content
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 297956
Handle: RePEc:unm:umaror:2012002