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The Marginal Propensity to Spend on Adult Children

Altonji, Joseph G. - 2003

discounted values of these responses to permanent income. Our estimates imply that parents pass on between 2 and 3 cents out of …We examine how much of an extra dollar of parental lifetime resources will ultimately be passed on to adult children in … rates and age specific estimates of the response of transfers and wealth to permanent income to compute the expected present …

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Parental Skills, Assortative Mating, and the Incidence of Autism Spectrum Disorder

Daysal, N. Meltem; Elder, Todd E.; Hellerstein, Judith K.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

two separate occupation-based skill measures and find that these measures are associated with ASD incidence among children …

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Dressed for Success? The Effect of School Uniforms on Student Achievement and Behavior

Gentile, Elisabetta - 2011

Uniform use in public schools is rising, but we know little about how they affect students. Using a unique dataset from …

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Going to War and Going to College : Did World War II and the G.I. Bill Increase Educational Attainment for Returning Veterans?

Bound, John - 1999

widespread rhetoric about the democratization' of higher education that came with this large pool of students, there is little …

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Double Trouble : On the Value of Twins-Based Estimation of the Return to Schooling

Bound, John - 1998

Several recent studies use the schooling and wage variation between monozygotic twins to estimate the return to schooling. In this paper, we summarize the results from this literature, and we examine the implications of endogenous determination of which twin goes to school longer and of...

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On the Validity of Season of Birth as an Instrument in Wage Equations : A Comment on Angrist & Krueger's "Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Scho

Bound, John - 1996

In an important and provocative paper, `Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings?', Angrist and Krueger use quarter of birth as an instrument for educational attainment in wage equations. To support a causal interpretation of their estimates, they argue that compulsory...

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The Effect of Measured School Inputs on Academic Achievement : Evidence from the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s Birth Cohorts

Loeb, Susanna - 1995

The study presented here uses data from the NORC General Social Surveys to explore the effects of measurable school characteristics on student achievement. What separates this study from many others is the use of aggregate data on older cohorts, usually associated with research on the influence...

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The Demand for and Return to Education When Education Outcomes are Uncertain

Altonji, Joseph G. - 1991

The vast literature on human capital and earnings assumes that individuals know in advance that they will complete a particular program of schooling. This paper treats education as a sequential choice that is made under uncertainty. A simple two period structural model is used to explore the...

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Quantifying Family, School, and Location Effects in the Presence of Complementarities and Sorting

Agrawal, Mohit - 2018

We extend the control function approach of Altonji and Mansfield (2018) to allow for multiple group levels and complementarities. Our analysis provides a foundation for causal interpretation of multilevel mixed effects models in the presence of sorting. In our empirical application, we obtain...

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The Labor Market Returns to Advanced Degrees

Altonji, Joseph G. - 2020

We estimate the labor market return to an MBA, a JD, and master's in engineering, nursing, education, psychology and social work, and thirteen other graduate degrees. To control for heterogeneity in preferences and ability, we use fixed effects for combinations of field-specific undergraduate...

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