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I investigate the mechanisms that drive sorting into entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial success among young individuals. I use Canadian matched owner-employeremployee data to conduct my investigation. Empirically, older entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs who have previously worked in high-wage...
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This paper explores whether and why a maternal "child penalty" to earnings would emerge even without changes in employment and hours worked. Using a matched event study design, we trace monthly changes in determinants of wages (job performance, human capital accumulation, and promotions). Data...
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divorced. Those who married prior to migration and who first married at an older age are less likely to be divorced. Those who …
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conservative areas were more likely to delay fertility/marriage and to accumulate human capital in the long run. We then show how …
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formulate and structurally estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of endogenous marriage and labor supply decisions in a collective … framework. We establish that the education gap at the time of marriage, produces dynamic effects due to human capital …
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in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of assortative mating; (v) more children living with a single …
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black/white educational distributions in marriage markets. The first contribution of this study is to provide an answer to … black and white education distributions have a significant impact on the black/white interracial marriage probability. …
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We study the contribution of parental similarity in schooling levels to the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment. We develop an empirical model for educational correlations within the family in which parental sorting can translate into intergenerational transmission, or...
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We estimate the relationship between international youth and professional tennis rankings. We find no difference between the predictiveness of rankings from age 14 & Under versus age 16 & Under competitions. The most persistent predictor of professional success is beating older top ranked...
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by examining the effect of an immigrant's marriage to a native, a measure of social integration, on dropout rates of … high school than immigrants that marry other immigrants. Moreover, gender differences in the effect of marriage to a native … disappear in specifications which control for the endogeneity of the marriage decision. -- Intermarriage ; immigration …
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