Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Buchner Charlotte 
Author-Name: Smits Wendy 
Author-Name: Velden Rolf van der
Author-workplace-name: METEOR
Title: Education, cognitive skills and earnings of males and females
Abstract: This paper analyzes the relationship between cognitive skills, measured at age 12, and earnings ofmales and females at the age of 35, conditional on their attained educational level. Employing alarge data set that combines a longitudinal school cohort survey with income data from Dutchnational tax files, our findings show that cognitive skills and specifically math skills arerewarded on the labor market, but more for females than for males. The main factor driving thisresult is that cognitive skills appear to be better predictors of schooling outcomes for malesthan for females. Once males have achieved the higher levels of education, they more often chooseprograms with high earning perspectives like economics and engineering, even if their level ofmath skills is relatively low. 
Keywords: labour economics ; 
Series: Research Memoranda
Creation-Date: 2012
Number: 010
File-URL: http://digitalarchive.maastrichtuniversity.nl/fedora/objects/guid:bd9e981d-7537-4449-9993-7ff86f5a6929/datastreams/ASSET1/content
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 715675
Handle: RePEc:unm:umamet:2012010