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Post-secondary attendance by parental income: Comparing the US and Canada
Belley, Philippe; Frenette, Marc; Lochner, Lance - 2010
This paper makes three contributions to the literature on educational attainment gaps by family income. First, we … conduct a parallel empirical analysis of the effects of parental income on post-secondary (PS) attendance for recent high … Youth in Transition Survey. We estimate substantially smaller PS attendance gaps by parental income in Canada relative to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291971
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The impact of family income on child achievement: Evidence from the earned income tax credit
Dahl, Gordon B.; Lochner, Lance - 2012
measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children …Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and …'s math and reading achievement. Our identification derives from the large, non-linear changes in the Earned Income Tax Credit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284026
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The impact of family income on child achievement: Evidence from the earned income tax Credit
Dahl, Gordon B.; Lochner, Lance - 2010
measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children …Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and …'s math and reading achievement. Our identification derives from the large, non-linear changes in the Earned Income Tax Credit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291968
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Post-secondary attendance by parental income in the U.S. and Canada: What role for financial aid policy?
Belley, Philippe; Frenette, Marc; Lochner, Lance - 2011
This paper examines the implications of tuition and need-based financial aid policies for family income - post …-secondary (PS) attendance relationships. We first conduct a parallel empirical analysis of the effects of parental income on PS … income in Canada relative to the U.S., even after controlling for family background, adolescent cognitive achievement, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291898
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The Changing Distribution of Job Satisfaction
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1999
The distribution of job satisfaction widened across cohorts of young men in the U.S. between 1978 and 1988, and between 1978 and 1996, in ways correlated with changing wage inequality. Satisfaction among workers in upper earnings quantiles rose relative to that of workers in lower quantiles. An...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262273
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Markets for reputation: evidence on quality and quantity in academe
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269500
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Wages, skills, and skill-biased technical change: The canonical model revisited
Bowlus, Audra J.; Lochner, Lance; Robinson, Chris; … - 2021
The canonical supply{demand model of the wage returns to skill has been extremely in uential; however, it has faced several important challenges. Several studies show that the standard approach sometimes produces theoretically wrong-signed elasticities of substitution, yields counterintuitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012614272
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Understanding earnings dynamics: Identifying and estimating the changing roles of unobserved ability, permanent and transitory shocks
Lochner, Lance; Shin, Youngki - 2014
We consider a general framework to study the evolution of wage and earnings residuals that incorporates features highlighted by two influential but distinct literatures in economics: (i) unobserved skills with changing non-linear pricing functions and (ii) idiosyncratic shocks that follow a rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379998
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Grazing, goods and girth: determinants and effects
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2009
Using the 2006-07 American Time Use Survey and its Eating and Health Module, I show that over half of adult Americans report grazing (secondary eating/drinking) on a typical day, with grazing time almost equaling primary eating/drinking time. An economic model predicts that higher wage rates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274180