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Heterogeneous Returns to Human Capital and Dynamic Self-Selection

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2021

We estimate a structural dynamic programming model of schooling decisions and obtain individual specific estimates of the local (and average) returns to schooling as well as the returns to experience. Homogeneity of the returns to human capital is strongly rejected in favor of a discrete...

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Estimating a model of qualitative and quantitative education choices in France

Belzil, Christian; Poinas, François - 2018

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Earnings dispersion, risk aversion and education

Belzil, Christian - 2002

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A structural analysis of the correlated random coefficient wage regression model

Belzil, Christian - 2002

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EARNINGS DISPERSION, RISK AVERSION AND EDUCATION

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - In: Accounting for worker well-being, (pp. 335-358). 2004

We estimate a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the degree of risk aversion can be inferred from schooling decisions. In our model, individuals are heterogeneous with respect to school and market abilities but homogeneous with respect to the degree of risk aversion. We...

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Dynamic skill accumulation, education policies, and the return to schooling

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 8 (2017) 3, pp. 895-927

Using a dynamic skill accumulation model of schooling and labor supply with learning-by-doing, we decompose early life-cycle wage growth of U.S. white males into four main sources: education, hours worked, cognitive skills (Armed Forces Qualification Tests scores), and unobserved heterogeneity,...

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Preference for the workplace, human capital, and gender

Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2016

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Preference for the workplace, investment in human capital, and gender

Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2016

. Undergraduate students are presented with sets of jobs that vary in their attributes (such as earnings and job hours flexibility … students' perceptions about the types of jobs that would be offered to them conditional on their college major choices, we … relate these job attribute preferences to major choice. We find that students perceive jobs offered to humanities majors to …

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Preference for the workplace, investment in human capital, and gender

Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - In: The quarterly journal of economics 133 (2018) 1, pp. 457-507

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Ask and you shall receive? : gender differences in regrades in college

Li, Cher Hsuehhsiang; Zafar, Basit - 2020

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