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College Characteristics and the Wages of Young Women
Daniel, Kermit; Black, Dan; Smith, Jeffery - EconWPA - 1996
Using the rich data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we show that several dimensions of college quality have positive impacts on young women's wages. We find evidence of ability sorting, but controlling for ability, women who attend higher quality colleges earn higher wages. Women...
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College Quality and the Wages of Young Men
Daniel, Kermit; Black, Dan; Smith, Jeffery - EconWPA - 1996
Using the rich data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we show that several dimensions of college quality have substantial positive impacts on young men's wages. This finding is robust to a wide array of alternative specifications. Controlling for ability reveals that sorting of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125048
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Lessons From a General Education-Oriented Principles of Economics Course
Greenlaw, Steven A. - EconWPA - 1998
Lessons From a General Education Oriented Principles of Economics Course Principles of Economics, as it is typically taught at the college level, is a predominantly lecture-based course using one of a variety of standard, voluminous texts, where students are exposed to a daunting array of...
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Returns to Education, Child Labor, & Schooling in India
Chamarbagwala, Rubiana - EconWPA - 2004
In an environment where children's time has an economic value and employment opportunities for educated workers are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556051
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Education, Labour Supply and Market Development in Rural Peru
Laszlo, Sonia - EconWPA - 2003
This paper examines the channels through which education affects household earnings in environments where wages are unobserved. Utilizing data from rural Peru, the empirical strategy decomposes the earnings returns to education into various wage-dependent and labour supply parameters. Geographic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118674
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The Dynamics of Returns to Education in Kenyan and Tanzanian Manufacturing
Söderbom, Måns; Teal, Francis; Wambugu, Anthony; … - EconWPA - 2004
The returns to education remain a central concern for development policy. In developed countries there is evidence that the returns to education have been rising.Evidence for changes over this period for developing countries is limited. In this paper we use data from Kenya and Tanzania to...
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Does Longevity Cause Growth
Hazan, Moshe; Zoabi, Hosny - EconWPA - 2005
This article challenges conventional wisdom by arguing that greater longevity cannot explain the significant accumulation of human capital during the transition from stagnation to growth. This is because greater longevity raises children's future income proportionally at all levels of education,...
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Labor Supply and Child Care Costs: The Effect of Rationing
Boca, Daniela Del; Vuri, Daniela - EconWPA - 2005
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Effects of Infertility Insurance Mandates on Fertility
Lucie, Schmidt - EconWPA - 2005
examine whether these state-level mandates were successful in increasing fertility rates. Using a difference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125754
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The Impact of Female Employment on the Likelihood and Timing of Second and Higher Order Pregnancies
Harvey S. James Jr. - EconWPA - 1996
This paper examines the effects of married women's employment on their fertility behavior in the United States. Data … from the National Survey of Family and Households are used in a hazard model to determine whether a woman's employment … transition to third pregnancy. In addition, this paper demonstrates that an appropriate method of modeling the fertility and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125787