Center for Global Development on Mythryl: “Does an extra year of schooling really deliver little to no economic…”

Does an extra year of schooling really deliver little to no economic return? 🎒 @leecrawfurd.bsky.social re-examines the evidence and finds returns of around 5–6% per additional year of schooling, even after correcting for publication bias. www.cgdev.org/publication/...

cgdev.orgThe Returns to Education: A CommentClark and Nielsen (2026) assemble a large dataset of quasi-experimental studies and argue that the causal return to an extra year of schooling is close to zero once one corrects for the selective publ...

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