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Labor Market Effects of Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs : Lessons from Colombia
Ferreira, María M.; Galindo, Camila; Urzua, Sergio - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper estimates the heterogeneous labor market effects of enrolling in higher education short-cycle (SC) programs. Expanding access to these programs might affect the behavior of some students (compliers) in two margins: the expansion margin (students who would not have enrolled in higher...
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Distorted Innovation : Does the Market Get the Direction of Technology Right?
Acemoglu, Daron - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
innovation can be systematically distorted. This paper builds a simple model of endogenous technology, which generalizes existing … comparative static results and characterizes potential distortions in the direction of innovation. I show that empirical findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226119
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Maximum Impact Intergenerational Associations
Eshaghnia, Sadegh; Heckman, James J.; Landersø, Rasmus - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper presents a new approach to measuring the intergenerational transmission of well-being and a novel perspective on which measures and what age ranges to use to estimate intergenerational social mobility. We select the measures and the age ranges that best predict important human capital...
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Where Do STEM Graduates Stem From? The Intergenerational Transmission of Comparative Skill Advantages
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The standard economic model of occupational choice following a basic Roy model emphasizes individual selection and comparative advantage, but the sources of comparative advantage are not well understood. We employ a unique combination of Dutch survey and registry data that links math and...
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Identification of Non-Additive Fixed Effects Models : Is the Return to Teacher Quality Homogeneous?
Hahn, Jinyong; Singleton, John D.; Yildiz, Neşe - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Panel or grouped data are often used to allow for unobserved individual heterogeneity in econometric models via fixed effects. In this paper, we discuss identification of a panel data model in which the unobserved heterogeneity both enters additively and interacts with treatment variables. We...
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Transparency and Percent Plans
Kapor, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Transparency vs. opacity is an important dimension of college admission policy. Colleges may gain useful information from a holistic review of applicants' materials, but in doing so may contribute to uncertainty that discourages potential applicants with poor information. This paper investigates...
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Global Engagement and the Innovation Activities of Firms
Criscuolo, Chiara - 2005
information. We also find that the relative importance of knowledge sources varies systematically with the type of innovation … organization that one of the main drivers of differences in productivity is differences in knowledge. We examine a new data set of … detailed measures of knowledge outputs, knowledge investments, and sources of existing knowledge. We find that globally engaged …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467200
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Measuring and Predicting "New Work" in the United States : The Role of Local Factors and Global Shocks
Kim, Gueyon; Merritt, Cassandra; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The evolution of work is of emerging importance to advanced economies' growth. In this study, we develop a new semantic-distance-based algorithm to identify "new work," namely the new types of jobs introduced in the US. We characterize how "new work" relates to task content of jobs and skill...
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Estimating the Impact of the Age of Criminal Majority : Decomposing Multiple Treatments in a Regression Discontinuity Framework
Mueller-Smith, Michael; Pyle, Benjamin; Walker, Caroline - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper studies the impact of adult prosecution on recidivism and employment trajectories for adolescent, first-time felony defendants. We use extensive linked Criminal Justice Admin- istrative Record System and socio-economic data from Wayne County, Michigan (Detroit). Using the discrete age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337757
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Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality : Maternal Endowments, Investments, and Birth Outcomes
Eshaghnia, Sadegh; Heckman, James J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal endowments and investments (education and smoking in...
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