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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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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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An Evaluation of Instrumental Variable Strategies for Estimating the Effects of Catholic Schools

Altonji, Joseph G. - 2002

Several previous studies have relied on religious affiliation and the proximity to Catholic schools as exogenous sources of variation for identifying the effect of Catholic schooling on a wide variety of outcomes. Using three separate approaches, we examine the validity of these instrumental...

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Estimating the Cream Skimming Effect of School Choice

Altonji, Joseph G. - 2010

stayers by luring the best students to other schools. This framework results in a simple formula showing that the "cream …-skimming" effect is increasing in the degree of heterogeneity within schools, the school choice takeup rate of strong students relative … to weak students, and the importance of peers. We use the formula to investigate the effects of a voucher program on the …

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The Analysis of Field Choice in College and Graduate School : Determinants and Wage Effects

Altonji, Joseph G. - 2015

As the workforce has become more educated, educational decisions are no longer just about whether to acquire more, but rather what type of education to pursue. In college, individuals somewhat specialize through their choice of college major. Further specialization occurs in graduate school....

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Risky Business? The Effect of Majoring in Business on Earnings and Educational Attainment

Andrews, Rodney J. - 2017

-effects controls, which is consistent with students choosing majors based on comparative advantage. We do not find statistically …

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The Costs of and Net Returns to College Major

Altonji, Joseph G. - 2017

This paper uses administrative student and expenditure data from Florida public universities to describe a) how the cost of producing graduates varies by major, b) how the inclusion of major-specific instructional costs alters the estimated net returns to different fields of study, and c) how...

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The Returns to College Major Choice : Average and Distributional Effects, Career Trajectories, and Earnings Variability

Andrews, Rodney J.; Imberman, Scott A.; Lovenheim, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

to the role of earnings growth and variability. Using linked administrative data from Texas on public K-12 students …

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