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What is Left to Residual Claimants? The Empirics of Income Reported by Entrepreneurs and Workers
Poutvaara, Panu; Tuomala, Juha - EconWPA - 2004
Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average income with all but undergraduate level of...
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Maternal Employment and Adolescent Risky Behavior
Aughinbaugh, Alison; Gittleman, Maury - EconWPA - 2003
evidence that mother’s employment early in the child’s life has lasting consequences on participation in risky behaviors …This paper examines the impact of maternal employment during a child’s first three years and during adolescence on his …. Similarly, with the possible exception of drinking alcohol—our results do not indicate that maternal employment during …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125822
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Social Networks in Determining Employment and Wages: Patterns, Dynamics, and Inequality
Calvo-Armengol, Antoni; Jackson, Matthew O. - EconWPA - 2002
social contacts. We show that an improvement in the employment status of either an agent's direct or indirect contacts leads … to an increase in the agent's employment probability and expected wages, in the sense of first order stochastic dominance … show that employment is positively correlated across time and agents, and the same is true for wages. Moreover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005135002
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Is Investing College Education Risky?
Chen, Stacey H. - EconWPA - 2002
Attending college seems to be a profitable and affordable investment in the US. Nevertheless, a number of academically talented young people still hesitate to attend college. This puzzle motivates this paper to test for whether college education is a risky investment. To measure the riskiness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076547
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125045
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125048
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Effect of a School Finance Reform on Housing Stock and Residential Segregation: Evidence from Proposal A in Michigan
Roy, Joydeep - EconWPA - 2004
Local financing of public schools in the U.S. leads to a bundling of two distinct choices - residential choice and school choice - and increases the degree of socioeconomic segregation across school districts. A school finance reform can go a long way in weakening this link. In this paper I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125973
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Financial Education and Savings Outcomes in Individual Development Accounts
Clancy, Margaret; Grinstein-Weiss, Michal; Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001
Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) are subsidized savings accounts. Unlike other subsidized savings accounts such as Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) or 401(k) plans, IDAs are targeted to the poor, provide subsidies through matches rather than through tax breaks, and require...
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Schooling and Parental Death
Gertler, Paul; Levine, David I.; Ames, Minnie - EconWPA - 2003
Loss of a parent is one of the most traumatic events a child can face. If loss of a parent reduces investments in children, it can also have long-lasting implications. This study uses parametric and semi-nonparametric matching techniques to estimate how one human capital investment, school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413016
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Ethnic Diversity and School Funding in Kenya
Miguel, Edward - EconWPA - 2001
The impact of ethnic diversity on the provision of local public goods and collective action in Africa remains largely unexplored. To address this gap, this paper explores the relationship between ethnic diversity and local primary school funding in rural western Kenya. The econometric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413027