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Estimating external returns to education in the US : a production function approach
Shields, Michael P.; Shields, Gail M. - In: Applied economics letters 16 (2009) 10/12, pp. 1089-1092
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Measuring the returns to education nonparametrically
Ulrick, Shawn W. - In: Applied economics letters 14 (2007) 13/15, pp. 1005-1011
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Returns to education and wage equations : a dynamic approach
Andini, Corrado - In: Applied economics letters 14 (2007) 7/9, pp. 577-579
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An alternative interpretation of "average years of education" in growth regressions
Földvári, Péter; Leeuwen, Bas van - In: Applied economics letters 16 (2009) 7/9, pp. 945-949
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Sheepskin effects in the returns to education
Silles, Mary - In: Applied economics letters 15 (2008) 1/3, pp. 217-219
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Educational Inequality and the Returns to Skills
Lundberg, Shelly J. - 2013
Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...
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Markets for Reputation : Evidence on Quality and Quantity in Academe
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2009
We develop a theory of the market for individual reputation, an indicator of regard by oneﾒs peers and others. The central questions are: 1) Does the quantity of exposures raise reputation independent of their quality? and 2) Assuming that overall quality matters for reputation, does the...
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Testing the Correlated Random Coefficient Model
Heckman, James J. - 2009
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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Does the Choice of Reference Levels of Education Matter in the Oru Earnings Equation?
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2009
This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation/under-education … (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference levels of education are measured using the Realized … independent of the measure of the usual or reference level of education used in the analyses …
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Returns to On-the-Job Search and the Dispersion of Wages
Gottfries, Axel - 2017
A wide class of models with On-the-Job Search (OJS) predicts that workers gradually select into better-paying jobs. We develop a simple methodology to test predictions implied by OJS using two sources of identification: (i) time-variation in job-finding rates and (ii) the time since the last...
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