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Returns to Education and Risky Financial Investment

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  • Sarah Brown

    () (Department of Economics, The University of Sheffield)

  • Gaia Garino
  • Karl Taylor

    () (Department of Economics, The University of Sheffield)

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The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between wages, human capital and investment in financial assets with risky returns at the individual level. To explore this relationship from an international perspective, we analyse individual level data from the British Household Panel Survey, the German Socio-Economic Panel and the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Our findings suggest that investment in financial assets with risky returns is positively associated with returns to human capital investment.

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Paper provided by The University of Sheffield, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 2006012.

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Length: 12 pages
Date of creation: Oct 2006
Date of revision: Oct 2006
Handle: RePEc:shf:wpaper:2006012

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Keywords: Education; Financial Investment; Human Capital; Wages.;

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  1. Robert B. Barsky & Miles S. Kimball & F. Thomas Juster & Matthew D. Shapiro, 1997. "Preference Parameters and Behavioral Heterogeneity: An Experimental Approach in the Health and Retirement Survey," NBER Working Papers 5213, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Sarah Brown & Karl Taylor, 2005. "Wage Growth, Human Capital And Financial Investment," Manchester School, University of Manchester, vol. 73(6), pages 686-708, December.
  3. Trostel, Philip & Walker, Ian & Woolley, Paul, 2002. "Estimates of the economic return to schooling for 28 countries," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 9(1), pages 1-16, February.
  4. Shaw, Kathryn L, 1996. "An Empirical Analysis of Risk Aversion and Income Growth," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 14(4), pages 626-53, October.
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