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We investigate how religious beliefs affected the take up of the birth control pill and impacted women's outcomes using … fertility among minor women, aged 21 or younger, for whom access restrictions were most drastically lifted. We then evaluate how … examining its impact on female fertility control and human capital formation. We find that younger women who grew up in more …
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We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...
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distance. I analyze changes in relative wages due to human capital accumulation. The concept of a complexity dispersion …
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Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the private return to schooling. We present a simple explanation combining two ideas: imperfect substitution and endogenous skill-biased technological progress and use cross-country...
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How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that...
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, wage compensation for commuting is lower for women after the birth compared to men: about 3 − 4 percentage points of the … overall gender pay gap is due to gender differences related to compensation for commuting when having children. Third, women … increases substantially for women with a child. For female workers with a child, a one standard deviation increase in commuting …
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We investigate the major choice of college graduates where we make choice dependent on expected initial wages and … expected real wage growth and expected initial wages across majors. Furthermore, the differences in these expectations appear …
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make it easier for them to switch employers than for the part-time educated auditors. The predictions on tenure and wages …
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