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Effects of education externalities on schooling
Fukumura, Koichi - In: Economic modelling 60 (2017), pp. 39-50
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Returns to Education in Professional Football
Böheim, René; Lackner, Mario - 2011
surprisingly similar to returns to formal education. The results of our analysis provide information for the players who are …
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Education and optimal dynamic taxation: The role of income-contingent student loans
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2012
We study Pareto optimal tax and education policies when human capital upon labor market entry is endogenous and … individuals face wage uncertainty. Though optimal labor distortions are history-dependent, i.e. depend on income and education …-contingent loans. To take themodel to the (US) data, we simplify the model to a binary education decision (graduating from college or …
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Early life environment and racial inequality in education and earnings in the United States
Chay, Kenneth Y.; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2014
years immediately after birth. This study analyzes whether the across-cohort patterns in the black-white education and …-of-test taking. With Census data, we find: i) a significant narrowing across the same cohorts in education gaps driven primarily by a … gains is greater than can be explained by only the black gains in education and test scores for reasonable estimates of the …
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Separating uncertainty from heterogeneity in life cycle earnings
Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J.; Navarro, Salvador - 2005
This paper develops and applies a method for decomposing cross section variability of earnings into components that are forecastable at the time students decide to go to college (heterogeneity) and components that are unforecastable. About 60 % of variability in returns to schooling is...
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Race, social class, and bulimia nervosa
Goeree, Michelle S.; Ham, John C.; Iorio, Daniela - 2012
In this paper we explore a serious eating disorder, bulimia nervosa (BN), which afflicts a surprising number of girls in the US. We challenge the long-held belief that BN primarily affects high income White teenagers, using a unique data set on adolescent females evaluated regarding their...
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Sustainability of US public debt : estimating smoothing spline regressions
Greiner, Alfred; Kauermann, Göran - In: Economic modelling 24 (2007) 2, pp. 350-364
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Structural and reduced approaches of the equilibrium rate of unemployment, a comparison between France and the United States
Heyer, Eric; Reynés, Frédéric; Sterdyniak, Henri - In: Economic modelling 24 (2007) 1, pp. 42-65
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Comovements among U.S. state housing prices : evidence from fractional cointegration
Barros, Carlos Pestana; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; Payne, James E. - In: Economic modelling 29 (2012) 3, pp. 936-942
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Comparing the shape of recoveries : France, the UK and the US
Bec, Frédérique; Bouabdallah, Othman; Ferrara, Laurent - In: Economic modelling 44 (2015), pp. 327-334
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