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Does private schooling increase adult earnings? : cohort-level evidence for U.S. states

Berger, Reilee L.; Winters, John V. - 2016

Public schooling in the U.S. has numerous critics, many of whom suggest that alternatives such as providing vouchers for private schools may be more effective. This paper combines decennial census and American Community Survey data for various years to examine the relationship between...

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Do workers benefit from resource booms in their home state? : evidence from the fracking era

Winters, John V.; Cai, Zhengyu; Maguire, Karen; … - 2019

Fracking innovations revolutionized the United States oil and gas industry and facilitated a boom in energy production in states with oil and gas resources. This paper examines effects of oil and gas booms within a state on individual employment and earnings. To account for endogenous migration...

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Differences in employment outcomes for college town stayers and leavers

Winters, John V. - 2012

experience less favorable employment outcomes along multiple dimensions. On average, stayers earn lower annual and hourly wages … and work in less educated occupations. -- migration ; human capital ; education ; college towns ; wages …

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STEM graduates, human capital externalities, and wages in the US

Winters, John V. - 2013

-STEM fields on the wages of other workers in the same metropolitan area. I find that both types of college graduates create …

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Differences in quality of life estimates using rents and home values

Winters, John V. - 2012

Quality of life differences across areas can be measured by differences in "real wages" where real wages are computed … as nominal wages adjusted for the cost of living. Computing cost of living differences involves several important issues … construct quality of life estimates. -- quality of life ; amenities ; rents ; housing ; wages …

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Do foreigners crowd natives out of STEM degrees and occupations? : evidence from the U.S. immigration act of 1990

Ransom, Tyler; Winters, John V. - 2016

This paper examines effects of the U.S. Immigration Act of 1990 on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) degree completion and labor market outcomes for native-born Americans. The Act increased the in-flow and stock of foreign STEM workers in the U.S., both by increasing green...

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Too cold to venture there? : January temperature and immigrant self-employment across the United States

Lee, Jun Yeong; Winters, John V. - 2021

Immigrant entrepreneurs are critical to regional and national economies. Immigrants in the USA have higher self-employment rates than natives, and immigrants have made outsized contributions as founders of numerous highly successful firms. However, we document that immigrant self-employment...

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