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greater inequality. To investigate this we construct a dynamic model of intergenerational education acquisition, fertility … fertility and education, a decreasing marginal effect of parental education on children's years of education, and wages that are …
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ability to perform complex tasks. The data suggests that the sorting effect of education is an important determinant of …
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A structural model of the demand for college attendance is derived from the theory of comparative advantage and recent statistical models of self-selection and unobserved components. Estimates from NBER-Thorndike data strongly support the theory. First, expected lifetime earnings gains influence...
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It can be claimed that education is simply a normal consumption good and that like all other normal goods, an increase …
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Section I introduces the material. In section II a model is developed which explores the impact of input-quality uncertainty on factor demand from which is derived a rationale for the use of devices which segment the population into classes differing in their "skill" distribution parameters. The...
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between education and allocative efficiency. Section I is reprinted from my J.P.E. paper "Education in Production". Section II …
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institutional structure to attitudes such as trust, individualism, and nepotism. Using data from Turkey and leveraging an education …
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models two existing hypotheses on the correlation between health and education. The estimation results strongly support the … interdependence between health and education. In particular, the estimated model indicates that an individual's education, health …'s education by 1.4 years. Policy experiments indicate that a health expenditure subsidy would have a larger impact on educational …
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This paper presents a model of the intergenerational transmission of education and marital sorting where parents matter … impact in the UK than in the US as a result of the fertility and education transmission process. When the relative supply of …
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This paper examines the education literature through the lens of sorting. It argues that how individuals sort across …. It discusses the implications of different education finance systems for sorting and analyzes the efficiency and welfare …
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