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The Return to Schooling in Structural Dynamic Models: A Survey
Belzil, Christian - HAL - 2006
This papers contains a survey of the recent literature devoted to the returns to schooling within a dynamic structural framework. I present a historical perspective on the evolution of the literature, from early static models set in a selectivity framework (Willis and Rosen, 1979) to the recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008792063
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The Identification of Agglomeration Economies
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - HAL - 2010
Measures of urban productivity are typically positively associated with city population. But is this relationship causal? We discuss the main sources of bias in the proper identification of agglomeration effects. We also assess a variety of solutions that have been proposed in the literature to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794162
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Do Immigrants Cause Crime?
Bianchi, Milo; Buonanno, Paolo; Pinotti, Paolo - HAL - 2012
We examine the empirical relationship between immigration and crime across Italian provinces during the period 1990 … with the incidence of property crimes and with the overall crime rate. Then, we use instrumental variables based on … other types of crime. Since robberies represent a very minor fraction of all criminal offenses, the effect on the overall …
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