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Benjamin, Daniel J. - 2020

Risk aversion is typically inferred from real or hypothetical choices over risky lotteries, but such "untutored" choices may reflect mistakes rather than preferences. We develop a procedure to disentangle preferences from mistakes: after eliciting untutored choices, we confront participants with...

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Does Career Risk Deter Potential Entrepreneurs?

Gottlieb, Joshua D. - 2016

Do potential entrepreneurs remain in wage employment because of concerns that they will face worse job opportunities should their entrepreneurial ventures fail? Using a Canadian reform that extended job-protected leave to one year for women giving birth after a cutoff date, we study whether the...

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The Catch-22 of External Validity in the Context of Constraints to Firm Growth

Fischer, Greg - 2015

We document the presence of multiple and varied constraints to small and medium firm growth. This presents both a practical problem for business training programs and a challenge to academic economists trying to identify mechanisms though which these programs may affect outcomes. External...

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Business Literacy and Development : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Rural Mexico

Calderon, Gabriela - 2013

A large share of the poor in developing countries run small enterprises, often earning low incomes. This paper explores whether the poor performance of businesses can be explained by a lack of basic business skills. We randomized the offer of a free, 48-hour business skills course to female...

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Estimating Returns to Schooling When Schooling is Misreported

Kane, Thomas J. - 1999

We propose a general method of moments technique to identify measurement error in self-reported and transcript-reported schooling using differences in wages, test scores, and other covariates to discern the relative verity of each measure. We also explore the implications of such reporting...

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Who Benefits from Obtaining a GED? Evidence from High School and Beyond

Murnane, Richard J. - 1999

This paper examines the value of the GED credential and the conventional high school diploma in explaining the earnings of 27-year-old males in the early 1990s. The data base is the High School & Beyond sophomore cohort. We replicate the basic findings of prior studies that implicitly assume the...

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A Bridge to Graduation : Post-Secondary Effects of an Alternative Pathway for Students Who Fail High School Exit Exams

Lincove, Jane Arnold; Mata, Catherine; Cortes, Kalena E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

High school exit exams are meant to standardize the quality of public high schools and to ensure that students graduate with a set of basic skills and knowledge. Evidence suggests that a common perverse effect of exit exams is an increase in dropout for students who have difficulty passing...

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Why Have College Completion Rates Increased? An Analysis of Rising Grades

Denning, Jeffrey T.; Eide, Eric R.; Mumford, Kevin J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

College completion rates declined from the 1970s to the 1990s. We document that this trend has reversed--since the 1990s, college completion rates have increased. We investigate the reasons for the increase in college graduation rates. Collectively, student characteristics, institutional...

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Immigration and Occupational Comparative Advantage

Hanson, Gordon H.; Liu, Chen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Job choice by high-skilled foreign-born workers in the US correlates strongly with country of origin. We apply a Frechet-Roy model of occupational choice to evaluate the causes of immigrant sorting. In a gravity specification, we find that revealed comparative advantage in the US is stronger for...

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Grads on the Go : Measuring College-Specific Labor Markets for Graduates

Conzelmann, Johnathan G.; Hemelt, Steven W.; Hershbein, Brad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

. About 50 percent of recent college graduates are living and working in the metro area nearest the institution they attended … average strength of the labor market to which a college sends its graduates predicts college-specific intergenerational … of considering migration patterns of college graduates when estimating the social return on public investment in higher …

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