Browsing Economic and Social Review by Author "Harmon, Colm"

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    • Literacy and education in Ireland 

      Denny, Kevin; Harmon, Colm; McMahon, Doreen; Redmond, Sandra (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1999)
      Recent media attention has focused on the low ranking of Ireland in a major international study on literacy. In this paper we examine the dataset used in these studies to consider the reason behind the low ranking. We find ...

    • Schooling and earnings in the UK ? Evidence from the ROSLA experiment 

      Harmon, Colm; Walker, Ian (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1993)
      Recent work by Angrist and Krueger (1991,1992) utilised an "experiment" to distinguish an individual's return to schooling where additional schooling is by choice compared to the return when extra schooling is compulsory. ...