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Uncertainty about future income : initial beliefs and resolution during college

Gong, Yifan; Stinebrickner, Todd R.; Stinebrickner, Ralph - 2018

Uncertainty about future income plays a conceptually important role in college decisions. Unfortunately, characterizing … how much earnings uncertainty is present for students at college entrance and how quickly this uncertainty is resolved has … describing one's beliefs about future earnings at an ideal time - immediately before students began their first year courses. We …

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Parental support, savings and student loan repayment

Lochner, Lance; Stinebrickner, Todd R.; Suleymanoglu, Utku - 2018

. This framework demonstrates that non-monetary costs of applying for income-based repayment assistance are critical to … may be inefficient and lead to undesirable redistribution. Empirically, we demonstrate that expanding Canada's income …

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Marriage, children, and labor supply: beliefs and outcomes

Gong, Yifan; Stinebrickner, Todd R.; Stinebrickner, Ralph - 2020

While a large literature is interested in the relationship between family and labor supply outcomes, little is known about the expectations of these objects at earlier stages. We examine these expectations, taking advantage of unique data from the Berea Panel Study. In addition to characterizing...

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Wages, skills, and skill-biased technical change : the canonical model revisited

Bowlus, Audra J.; Lochner, Lance; Robinson, Chris; … - 2021

The canonical supply{demand model of the wage returns to skill has been extremely in uential; however, it has faced several important challenges. Several studies show that the standard approach sometimes produces theoretically wrong-signed elasticities of substitution, yields counterintuitive...

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Innis lecture : return on student loans in Canada

Lochner, Lance; Liu, Qian; Gervais, Martin - 2021

This paper uses new administrative data with detailed borrower information and lengthy repayment histories from the Canada Student Loans Program (CSLP) to mea- sure rates of return on undergraduate student loans. We document substantial heterogeneity in returns based on information available at...

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Perceived and actual option values of college enrollment

Gong, Yifan; Stinebrickner, Todd R.; Stinebrickner, Ralph - 2020

students' perceptions. We find that the average perceived option value is 65% smaller than the average actual option value ($8 … policy implications related to college entrance, we do not find evidence that students understate the overall value of …

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Demand and supply effects and returns to college education : evidence from a natural experiment with engineers in Denmark

Qvist, Hans-Peter Y.; Holm, Anders; Munk, Martin D. - 2016

The demand and supply model predicts that a larger relative net supply of a particular skill group will negatively affect its relative wage. To test this, we use the opening of a new university in Denmark as a natural experiment. We show that the opening of Aalborg University created a shock to...

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Careers and mismatch for college graduates : college and non-college jobs

Agopsowicz, Andrew; Robinson, Chris; Stinebrickner, Ralph; … - 2017

A large literature studies the wage consequences of over-education in the sense of a worker, by some measure, having a higher level of education than is required for the job. We use unique new data to reexamine the common interpretation that initial over-education represents a harmful type of...

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The increasing inequality of wealth in China, 2002-2013

Knight, John B.; Li, Shi; Wan, Haiyuan - 2017

decomposed using data from two national sample surveys of the China Household Income Project (CHIP) relating to 2002 and 2013 … relationships between income and wealth, house price inflation, differential savings, and income from wealth. …

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Social interactions, mechanisms, and equilibrium : evidence from a model of study time and academic achievement

Conley, Timothy G.; Mehta, Nirav; Stinebrickner, Ralph; … - 2017

We develop and estimate a model of study time choices of students on a social network. The model is designed to exploit … friend characteristics appears important in explaining variation across students in study time and achievement, and …

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