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Using Geographic Variation in College Proximity to Estimate the Return to Schooling

Card, David - 1993

affirm that marginal returns to education among children of less-educated parents are as high and perhaps much higher than … education and earnings than other men. The education and earnings gains are concentrated among men with poorly-educated parents …

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Are OLS Estimates of the Return to Schooling Biased Downward? Another Look

Blackburn, McKinley L. - 1993

We examine evidence on omitted-ability bias in estimates of the economic return to schooling, using proxies for unobserved ability. We consider measurement error in these ability proxies and the potential endogeneity of both experience and schooling, and examine wages at labor market entry and...

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Omitted-Ability Bias and the Increase in the Return to Schooling

Blackburn, McKinley L. - 1991

Over the 1980s there were sharp increases in the return to schooling estimated with conventional wage regressions. We use both a signaling model and a human capital model to explore how the relationship between ability and schooling could have changed over this period in ways Chat would have...

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The Return to Education in the Mid-20th Century : Evidence from Twins

Feigenbaum, James J. - 2019

What was the return to education in the United States at mid-century? In 1940, the correlation between years of schooling and earnings was relatively low, less than it had been in 1915 or than it would be in later decades. In this paper, we estimate the causal return to schooling in 1940,...

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Do Differences in School Quality Generate Heterogeneity in the Causal Returns to Education?

DeCicca, Philip - 2020

studies, however, explicitly consider the quality of schooling to which impacted students are exposed. To extend this …

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The Distribution of School Spending Impacts

Jackson, Clement - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We use estimates across all known "credibly causal" studies to examine the distributions of the causal effects of public K12 school spending on test scores and educational attainment in the United States. Under reasonable assumptions, for each of the 31 included studies, we compute the same...

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Markets for Reputation : Evidence on Quality and Quantity in Academe

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2009

We develop a theory of the market for individual reputation, an indicator of regard by one's peers and others. The central questions are: 1) Does the quantity of exposures raise reputation independent of their quality? and 2) Assuming that overall quality matters for reputation, does the quality...

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Testing the Correlated Random Coefficient Model

Heckman, James J. - 2009

The recent literature on instrumental variables (IV) features models in which agents sort into treatment status on the basis of gains from treatment as well as on baseline-pretreatment levels. Components of the gains known to the agents and acted on by them may not be known by the observing...

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Comprehensive versus Selective Schooling in England in Wales : What Do We Know?

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2006

with comprehensive schools during the 1960s and 70s. Before the reform, students would take an exam at age eleven, which …-added methodology: they compare outcomes for students passing through either type of school controlling for achievement levels at the … children only enter secondary school at age 11, these effects are likely due to selection bias. Careful choice of treatment and …

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Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling In Germany : Evidence and Interpretation

Pischke, Jorn-Steffen - 2005

We estimate the impact of compulsory schooling on earnings using the changes in compulsory schooling laws for secondary schools in West German states during the period from 1948 to 1970. While our research design is very similar to studies for various other countries, we find very different...

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