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Are There Returns to the Wages of Young Men from Working While in School?

Hotz, V. Joseph - 1999

This paper examines the impacts of work experience acquired while youth were in high school (and college) on young men's wage rates during the 1980s and 1990s. Previous studies have found evidence of sizeable and persistent rates of return to working while enrolled in school, especially high...

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Games Daughters and Parents Play : Teenage Childbearing, Parental Reputation, and Strategic Transfers

Hao, Lingxin - 2000

teenager and the willingness of parents to continue to house and support their daughters given their decisions. Drawing on the … work of Milgrom and Roberts (1982) and Kreps and Wilson (1982) on reputation in repeated games, we show that parents have …

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Recovering Ex Ante Returns and Preferences for Occupations using Subjective Expectations Data

Arcidiacono, Peter - 2014

We show that data on subjective expectations, especially on outcomes from counterfactual choices and choice probabilities, are a powerful tool in recovering ex ante treatment effects as well as preferences for different treatments. In this paper we focus on the choice of occupation, and use...

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Modeling College Major Choices using Elicited Measures of Expectations and Counterfactuals

Arcidiacono, Peter - 2010

The choice of a college major plays a critical role in determining the future earnings of college graduates. Students … survey students about what their expected earnings would be both in the major they have chosen and in counterfactual majors …. We also elicit students' subjective assessments of their abilities in chosen and counterfactual majors. We estimate a …

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