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Gainfully Employed? Assessing the Employment and Earnings of For-Profit College Students Using Administrative Data
Cellini, Stephanie Riegg - 2016
We draw on population-level administrative data from the U.S. Department of Education and the Internal Revenue Service to quantify the impact of for-profit college attendance on the employment and earnings of over one million students. Using a matched comparison group difference-in-differences...
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Estimating Returns to Schooling When Schooling is Misreported
Kane, Thomas J. - 1999
-reported schooling using differences in wages, test scores, and other covariates to discern the relative verity of each measure. We also …
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Endophilia or Exophobia : Beyond Discrimination
Feld, Jan - 2013
The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative: One group suffers compared to another. But does a difference arise because agents discriminate against others--are exophobic--or because they favor their own kind--are endophilic? This difference matters, as the relative...
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Attrition from Administrative Data : Problems and Solutions with an Application to Postsecondary Education
Foote, Andrew; Stange, Kevin M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
high-earners, flagship graduates, and certain majors. Consequently, the effect of graduating from a flagship university is …
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Why Do Wages Grow Faster for Educated Workers?
Deming, David J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The U.S. college wage premium doubles over the life cycle, from 27 percent at age 25 to 60 percent at age 55. Using a panel survey of workers followed through age 60, I show that growth in the college wage premium is primarily explained by occupational sorting. Shortly after graduating, workers...
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Explaining Rising Income and wage Inequality Among the College Educated
Hoxby, Caroline M. - 1999
The incomes and wages of college-educated Americans have become significantly more dispersed since 1970. This paper …
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The Race Between Education, Technology, and the Minimum Wage
Vogel, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
should be small on impact---raising only the wages of workers bound by the minimum wage---and grow over time as workers …. Estimated at the national level, I show that minimum wages---together with supply and demand---play a central role in shaping … document the dynamic impact of the minimum wage over the full wage distribution: on impact, wages rise only for the lowest …
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Is it all worth it? The experiences of new PhDs on the job market, 2007-2010
McFall, Brooke Helppie - 2014
This paper describes the job market experiences of new PhD economists, 2007-10. Using information from PhD programs' job candidate websites and original surveys, the authors present information about job candidates' characteristics, preferences and expectations; how job candidates fared at each...
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Fifty Years of Mincer Earnings Regressions
Heckman, James J. - 2003
The Mincer earnings function is the cornerstone of a large literature in empirical economics. This paper discusses the theoretical foundations of the Mincer model and examines the empirical support for it using data from Decennial Censuses and Current Population Surveys. While data from 1940 and...
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Technological Change and Wages : An Inter-Industry Analysis
Bartel, Ann P. - 1997
Previous research has found evidence that wages in industries characterized as high tech,' or subject to higher rates … positive relationships between technological change and wages, and between technological change and the education premium. We …
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