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Female Labour Supply, Human Capital and Welfare Reform
Blundell, Richard; Meghir, Costas; Dias, Monica Costa; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We estimate a dynamic model of employment, human capital accumulation - including education, and savings for women in the UK, exploiting policy changes. We analyze both the incentive effects and the welfare implications of tax credits and income support programs and we account for their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011254925
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Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling In Germany: Evidence and Interpretation
Pischke, Jorn-Steffen; von Wachter, Till Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
We estimate the impact of compulsory schooling on earnings using the changes in compulsory schooling laws for secondary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005710908
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The GED
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
The General Educational Development (GED) credential is issued on the basis of an eight hour subject-based test. The test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college and positions in the labor market. In 2008 alone, almost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008614649
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Econometric Methods for Research in Education
Meghir, Costas; Rivkin, Steven G. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This paper reviews some of the econometric methods that have been used in the economics of education. The focus is on understanding how the assumptions made to justify and implement such methods relate to the underlying economic model and the interpretation of the results. We start by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008622342
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U.S High School Graduation Rates: Patterns and Explanations
Murnane, Richard J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
I survey the evidence on patterns in U.S. high school graduation rates over the period 1970-2010 and report the results of new research conducted to fill in holes in the evidence. I begin by pointing out the strengths and limitations of existing data sources. I then describe six striking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095620
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Allander Series: Skill Policies for Scotland
Heckman, James J.; Masterov, Dimitriy V. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
early, and schooling merely widens them. Additional university tuition subsidies or improvements in school quality are not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078638
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Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation
Cunha, Flavio; Lochner, Lance; Heckman, James J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
This paper presents economic models of child development that capture the essence of recent findings from the empirical literature on skill formation. The goal of this essay is to provide a theoretical framework for interpreting the evidence from a vast empirical literature, for guiding the next...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084486
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Economic Considerations and Class Size
Krueger, Alan B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002
This paper examines evidence on the effect of class size on student achievement. First, it is shown that results of quantitative summaries of the literature, such as Hanushek (1997), depend critically on whether studies are accorded equal weight. Hanushek summarizes 277 estimates extracted from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085382
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The Schooling Quality-Earnings Relationship: Using Economic Theory to Interpret Functional Forms Consistent with the Evidence
Heckman, James; Layne-Farrar, Anne; Todd, Petra - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1995
This paper investigates the economic and empirical foundations of the evidence relating earnings to schooling quality … earnings. Nonparametric tests strongly reject this hypothesis. The conventional assumption of linearity of the earnings … labor services. The empirically concordant model of earnings is a model of heterogeneous human capital in which regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005710646
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Changes in the Wage Structure, Family Income, and Children's Education
Acemoglu, Daron; Pischke, Jorn-Steffen - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000
We exploit the changes in the distribution of family income to estimate the effect of parental resources on college education. Our strategy exploits the fact that families at the bottom of the income distribution were much poorer in the 1990s than they were in the 1970s, while the opposite is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720636