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What accounts for the US-Canada education-premium difference?

Kryvtsov, Oleksiy; Ueberfeldt, Alexander - 2009

This paper analyzes the differences in wage ratios of university graduates to less than university graduates, the education premium, in Canada and the United States from 1980 to 2000. Both countries experienced a similar increase in the fraction of university graduates and a similar increase in...

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The incentive effects of higher education subsidies on student effort

Sahin, Aysegül - 2004

This paper uses a game-theoretic model to analyze the disincentive effects of low-tuition policies on student effort. The model of parent and student responses to tuition subsidies is then calibrated using information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and the High School and...

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Preference for the workplace, investment in human capital, and gender

Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2016

. Undergraduate students are presented with sets of jobs that vary in their attributes (such as earnings and job hours flexibility … students' perceptions about the types of jobs that would be offered to them conditional on their college major choices, we … relate these job attribute preferences to major choice. We find that students perceive jobs offered to humanities majors to …

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