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The Effect of Age at School Entry on Educational Attainment : An Application of Instrumental Variables with Moments from Two Samples

Angrist, Joshua D.; Krueger, Alan B. - 2021

This paper tests the hypothesis that compulsory school attendance laws, which typically require school attendance until a specified birthday, induce a relationship between the years of schooling and age at school entry. Variation in school start age created by children's date of birth provides a...

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The Origins of Technology-Skill Complementarity

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2010

Current concern with relationships among particular technologies, capital, and the wage structure motivates this study of the origins of technology-skill complementarity in manufacturing. We offer evidence of the existence of technology-skill and capital-skill (relative) complementarities from...

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The Returns to Skill in the United States Across the Twentieth Century

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2021

Economic inequality is higher today than it has been since 1939, as measured by both the wage structure and wealth inequality. But the comparison between 1939 and 1999 is largely made out of necessity; the 1940 U.S. population census was the first to inquire of wage and salary income and...

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Labor Market Effects of School Quality : Theory and Evidence

Card, David; Krueger, Alan B. - 2021

This paper presents an overview and interpretation of the literature relating school quality to students' subsequent labor market success. We begin with a simple theoretical model that describes the determination of schooling and earnings with varying school quality. A key insight of the model...

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Education for Growth : Why and for Whom?

Krueger, Alan B.; Lindahl, Mikael - 2021

This paper tries to reconcile evidence from the microeconometric and empirical macro growth literatures on the effect of schooling on income and GDP growth. Much microeconometric evidence suggest that education is an important causal determinant of income for individuals within countries. At a...

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The Race between Education and Technology : The Evolution of U.S. Educational Wage Differentials, 1890 to 2005

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2010

U.S. educational and occupational wage differentials were exceptionally high at the dawn of the twentieth century and then decreased in several stages over the next eight decades. But starting in the early 1980s the labor market premium to skill rose sharply and by 2005 the college wage premium...

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Changes in the Structure of Wages : the U.S. Versus Japan

Katz, Lawrence F.; Revenga, Ana - 2021

This paper examines changes in wage differentials by educational attainment and experience in the US. and Japan since … wage premium has increased only slightly in Japan. In contrast to the large expansion in experience differentials for high … and college graduates in Japan from 1979 to 1987. Macroeconomic factors (increased openness, trade deficits, and labor …

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Job Queues and Wages : New Evidence on the Minimum Wage and Inter-Industry Wage Structure

Holzer, Harry J. - 2010

This paper uses job applications- data to test the existence of non-competitive, ex-ante rents in the labor market. We first examine whether jobs that pay the legal minimum wage face an excessively of labor as measured by the number of job applications received for the most recent positions...

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School Resources and Educational Outcomes in Developing Countries : A Review of the Literature from 1990 to 2010

Glewwe, Paul - 2011

Developing countries spend hundreds of billions of dollars each year on schools, educational materials and teachers, but relatively little is known about how effective these expenditures are at increasing students' years of completed schooling and, more importantly, the skills that they learn...

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The Effects of Education Quality on Income Growth and Mortality Decline

Jamison, Eliot - 2010

Previous work shows that higher levels of education quality (as measured by international student achievement tests) increases growth rates of national income. This paper begins by confirming those findings in an analysis involving more countries over more time with additional controls. We then...

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