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Trends in quality-adjusted skill premia in the United States, 1960 - 2000
Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae - 2008 - This version: September 2008
This paper presents new evidence that increases in college enrollment lead to a decline in the average quality of college graduates between 1960 and 2000, resulting in a decrease of 8 percentage points in the college premium. The standard demand and supply framework (Katz and Murphy, 1992, Card...
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Estimating marginal returns to education
Carneiro, Pedro; Heckman, James J.; Vytlacil, Edward - 2010
the return to schooling. Some marginal policy changes inducing students into college produce very low returns. -- Returns …
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Average and marginal returns to upper secondary schooling in Indonesia
Carneiro, Pedro; Lokshin, Michael; Ridao-Cano, Cristóbal; … - 2011
This paper estimates average and marginal returns to schooling in Indonesia using a non-parametric selection model. Identification of the model is given by exogenous geographic variation in access to upper secondary schools. We find that the return to upper secondary schooling varies widely...
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A flying start? : long term consequences of maternal time investments in children during their first year of life
Carneiro, Pedro; Løken, Katrine V.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2010
, maternal leave increased on average by 4 months and family income was unaffected. We find that this increase in maternal time … those whose mothers have less than 10 years of education. This effect is especially large for children of mothers who, in …
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Public childcare, labor market outcomes of caregivers, and child development : experimental evidence from Brazil
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Barros, Ricardo Paes de; … - 2022
not by parents, most of whom were already working. Beneficiary children saw sustained gains in height-for-age and weight …This study examines the impact of publicly provided daycare for children aged 0-3 on outcomes of children and their … used a lottery to assign children to limited public daycare openings. Winning the lottery translated to a 34 percent …
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