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The effects of high school peers' gender on college major, college performance and income
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2016
performance and their labor market income. We exploit the within-school, cohort-by-cohort variation in the gender composition of … high school classmates (peers), after controlling for school and teachers fixed effects. We find that male students … performance and change in major. And in the long run it did not produce any difference in income or labor market outcomes. We do …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515310
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STEM workers, H-1B visas, and productivity in US cities
Peri, Giovanni; Shih, Kevin Y.; Sparber, Chad - In: Journal of labor economics 33 (2015) 3, pp. 225-255
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Optimal taxation and the skill premium
Angelopoulos, Konstantinos; Malley, James R.; … - 2012
The stylized facts suggest a negative relationship between tax progressivity and the skill premium from the early 1960s until the early 1990s, and a positive one thereafter. They also generally imply rising tax progressivity, except for the 1980s. In this paper, we ask whether optimal tax policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488994
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Human capital, social mobility and the skill premium
Angelopoulos, Konstantinos; Malley, James R.; … - 2013
This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model to highlight the role of human capital accumulation of agents differentiated by skill type in the joint determination of social mobility and the skill premium. We first show that our model captures the empirical co-movement of the skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792199
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Gender of siblings and choice of college major
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2013
students graduated from high school between 1985 and 2005 to identify siblings. We follow the academic career of these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223443