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This paper estimates the marginal returns to college for individuals induced to enroll in college by different marginal policy changes. The recent instrumental variables literature seeks to estimate this parameter, but in general it does so only under strong assumptions that are tested and found...
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The recent literature on instrumental variables (IV) features models in which agents sort into treatment status on the basis of gains from treatment as well as on baseline-pretreatment levels. Components of the gains known to the agents and acted on by them may not be known by the observing...
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participants. The children of treated participants have fewer school suspensions, higher levels of education and employment, and …
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This paper estimates returns to education using a dynamic model of educational choice that synthesizes approaches in … differentials. For some, there are substantial causal effects of education at all stages of schooling …
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We compare the performance of maximum likelihood (ML) and simulated method of moments (SMM) estimation for dynamic … discrete choice models. We construct and estimate a simplified dynamic structural model of education that captures some basic …
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This paper considers the problem of making inferences about the effects of a program on multiple outcomes when the assignment of treatment status is imperfectly randomized. By imperfect randomization we mean that treatment status is reassigned after an initial randomization on the basis of...
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This paper analyzes the non-market benefits of education and ability. Using a dynamic model of educational choice we … estimate returns to education that account for selection bias and sorting on gains. We investigate a range of non … patterns of returns that depend on the levels of schooling and ability. Unlike the monetary benefits of education, the benefits …
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support the claim of substantial economic benefits from preschool education programs. Previous studies of the rate of return …
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This paper presents the first analysis of the life course outcomes through late midlife (around age 55) for the participants of the iconic Perry Preschool Project, an experimental high-quality preschool program for disadvantaged African-American children in the 1960s. We discuss the design of...
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responses to education and find evidence for substantial heterogeneity in unobserved variables on which agents make choices. The … estimated treatment effects of education are decomposed into the direct benefits of attaining a given level of schooling and … estimated treatment effects. While the estimated causal effects of education are substantial for most outcomes, we also estimate …
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