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Do better schools lead to more growth? : cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009
We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003920009
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How economics helped shape American Judaism
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010
This chapter discusses the strong impact of economic forces, and changes in the economic environment, on American Jewish observance and American Jewish religious institutions in the 20th century. Beginning with the immigrants' experience of dramatic economic change between the old country and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688845
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Heterogeneous returns to human capital and dynamic self-selection
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2001
We estimate a structural dynamic programming model of schooling decisions and obtain individual specific estimates of the local (and average) returns to schooling as well as the returns to experience. Homogeneity of the returns to human capital is strongly rejected in favor of a discrete...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401014
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Subjective discount rates, intergenerational transfers and the return to schooling
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 1999
Using a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions, we investigate the relationship between subjective discount rates and the labor market ability (the discount rate bias) on a panel taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Given household human capital and Armed Forces...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011313951
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Diverging patterns of education premium and school attendance in France and the US : a Walrasian view
De la Croix, David (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001784198
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Structural estimates of the intergenerational education correlation
Belzil, Christian (contributor); Hansen, Jörgen (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001877139
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The effect of an employer health insurance mandate on health insurance coverage and the demand for labor : evidence from Hawaii
Buchmueller, Thomas C.; DiNardo, John E.; Valletta, … - 2009
mandate that has ever been enforced in the United States, Hawaii's Prepaid Health Care Act, using a standard supply … Hawaii and other states increased, as did real health insurance costs, implying a rising burden of the mandate on Hawaii … voluntary market (primarily those with lower skills). We also find that relative wages fell in Hawaii over time, but the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832216
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Estimating complementarity between education and training
Belzil, Christian (contributor); Hansen, Jörgen (contributor) - 2008
In this paper, we formulate and estimate a structural model of post-schooling training that explicitly allows for possible complementarity between initial schooling levels and returns to training. Precisely, the wage outcome equation depends on accumulated schooling and on the incidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003784398
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Demographics, fiscal health, and school quality : shedding light on school closure decisions
Billger, Sherrilyn M. - 2010
In our current challenging budgetary environment, school closures remain a potentially attractive choice. With a large panel of Illinois schools from 1991 to 2005, I investigate which factors contribute to school closures. Among elementary schools, declining enrolments and rural locations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003939062
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Economic gains from publicly provided education in Germany
Frick, Joachim R. (contributor);  … - 2007
The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided education and to analyse their impact on the income distribution in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the SOEP and considering regional and education-specific variation, from a cross-sectional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003591501