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Table 7 IV and OLS estimates of the effect of education on sector of employment

From: Education and allocation of skills in Tunisia: evidence from an education reform

 

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2

3

4

IV.cns

0.0556

0.0070

0.0116

0.00378

 

(0.0028)***

(0.0014)***

(0.0024)***

(0.00098)***

OLS.cns

0.02871

0.002457

0.00543

0.001593

 

(0.00015)***

(0.000066)***

(0.00012)***

(0.000056)***

IV.lfs

0.057

0.0051

0.0012

0.0022

 

(0.011)***

(0.0059)

(0.0095)

(0.0046)

OLS.lfs

0.02822

0.00394

0.00545

0.00238

 

(0.00033)***

(0.00017)***

(0.00028)***

(0.00016)***

Outcome.var

Public admin

Public company

Private Tunisian

Multinat

   

company

 

Mean.outc

0.18

0.04

0.13

0.03

SD.outc

0.39

0.19

0.34

0.18

  1. Robust standard errors in parenthesis. Signif. codes: 0.01 ‘***’ 0.05 ‘**’ 0.1 ‘*’. Coefficients for grades completed in OLS and 2SLS regressions of working in different sectors on grades completed and a birth cohort polynomial. Outcome variables are dummy variables taking value one if the individual works in the respective sector and zero otherwise. 2SLS estimates use reform exposure as instrument. Cns refers to the census data and lfs to the labor force survey. Mean.outc and SD.outc refer to the mean and the standard deviation of the respective outcome.
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