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Science education and labor market outcomes in a developing economy.

We examine the association between studying science in higher secondary school and labor market earnings in India. Studying science in high school is associated with 22% greater earnings than studying business or humanities. Earnings for science students are further enhanced with some fluency in Eng...

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Published in:Economic Inquiry Vol. 60; no. 2; pp. 741 - 764
Main Authors: Jain, Tarun, Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop, Prakash, Nishith, Rakesh, Raghav
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Apr2022
Subjects:
India
Labor market
High school students
Language acquisition
Psycholinguistics
Science education
Education marketing
Marketing education
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