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The Signaling Value of a High School Diploma
Martorell, Paco; Clark, Damon - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2010
the U.S. To do so, we compare the earnings of workers that barely passed and barely failed high school exit exams … earnings comparison should identify the signaling value of the diploma. Using linked administrative data on earnings and … earnings. For both states, we can reject that individuals with a diploma earn eight percent more than otherwise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011150159
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Estimating the Payoff to Schooling Using the Vietnam-era Draft Lottery
Angrist, Joshua; Krueger, Alan - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 1991
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010701423
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Unobserved Ability, Comparative Advantage, and the Rising Return to Education in the United States: A Cohort-Based Approach
Deschenes, Olivier - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010720917
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Estimating the Payoff to Schooling Using the Vietnam-era Draft Lottery
Angrist, Joshua; Krueger, Alan - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 1991
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010720988
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Family Background Variables as Instruments for Education in Income Regressions: A Bayesian Analysis
Hoogerheide, Lennart; Block, Joern H.; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Institute - 2010
The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In this paper, we use data of the 2004 German Socio-Economic Panel and Bayesian analysis in order to analyze to what degree violations of the strong validity assumption affect the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008484065
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Estimating the Payoff to Schooling Using the Vietnam-era Draft Lottery
Angrist, Joshua; Krueger, Alan - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 1991
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005548217
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Unobserved Ability, Comparative Advantage, and the Rising Return to Education in the United States: A Cohort-Based Approach
Deschenes, Olivier - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005436067
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The Signaling Value of a High School Diploma
Martorell, Paco; Clark, Damon - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2010
the U.S. To do so, we compare the earnings of workers that barely passed and barely failed high school exit exams … earnings comparison should identify the signaling value of the diploma. Using linked administrative data on earnings and … earnings. For both states, we can reject that individuals with a diploma earn eight percent more than otherwise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004990471
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Unobserved Ability, Comparative Advantage, and the Rising Return to Education in the United States: A Cohort-Based Approach
Deschenes, Olivier - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005738642
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The Value of an Educated Population for an Individual's Entrepreneurship Success
Millan, Jose Maria; Congregado, Emilio; Roman, Concepcion; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2011
Human capital obtained through education has been shown to be one of the strongest drivers of entrepreneurship performance. The entrepreneur's human capital is, though, only one of the input factors into the production process of her venture. The value of other input factors, such as (knowledge)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008916007