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This paper develops and applies a method for decomposing cross section variability of earnings into components that are forecastable at the time students decide to go to college (heterogeneity) and components that are unforecastable. About 60% of variability in returns to schooling is...
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earnings variability are due to uncertainty and which components are due to components of human diversity that are forecastable …
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of religious behaviour towards "Theoi" in the laboratory. The theory we test is that, when faced with uncertainty …, individuals attempt to engage in a reciprocal contract with the source of uncertainty by sacrificing towards it. In our … uncertainty is lower. The findings imply that under circumstances of high uncertainty people are willing to sacrifice large …
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