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Why is an Elite Undergraduate Education Valuable? Evidence from Israel
Lang, Kevin - 2011
In this paper we compare the labor market performance of Israeli students who graduated from one of the leading universities, Hebrew University (HU), with those who graduated from a professional undergraduate college, College of Management Academic Studies (COMAS). Our results support a model in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130976
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Evaluating Student Outcomes at For-Profit Colleges
Lang, Kevin - 2012
Using the Beginning Postsecondary Student Survey, we examine the effect on earnings of obtaining certificates/degrees from for-profit, not-for-profit, and public institutions. Students who enter certificate programs at any type of institution do not gain from earning a certificate. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104391
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Is Debt Neutral in the Life Cycle Model?
Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 2010
This paper questions the widely accepted view that deficits have real effects in the life cycle model. Standard analyses of deficits within life cycle models treat the government as a dictatorial entity that can effect any intergenerational redistribution it desires. In contrast, this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760317
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The Return to English in a Non-English Speaking Country : Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel
Lang, Kevin - 2010
We use a unique sample of Russian immigrants and natives in Israel to examine the return to English knowledge. In cross-section estimates there is a significant return to English knowledge for both immigrants and natives with high levels of education. Language acquisition is an important element...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760705
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Educational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased
Gihleb, Rania - 2016
, thereby contributing to increased family income inequality. Sociologists have argued that educational homogamy has increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977617
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Language-Skill Complementarity : Returns to Immigrant Language Acquisition
Berman, Eli; Lang, Kevin; Siniver, Erez - 2021
We examine the effect of language acquisition on the growth of immigrants' earnings. We gathered data on recent Soviet immigrants to Israel that include retrospective questions on earnings and language ability on entry into their current job. Language acquisition is found to interact positively...
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The Effects of Income and Wealth on Time and Money Transfers between Parents and Children
Altonji, Joseph G.; Hayashi, Fumio; Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 2021
We use the 1988 PSID to study the effects of income and wealth on transfers of money and time between individuals and … transfers are only weakly related to income differences. Richer siblings give more to parents and receive less. Among parents … in the cross section or in the analysis using siblings that parental income or wealth raises time transfers from children …
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What Does the Corporate Income Tax Tax? A Simple Model Without Capital
Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 2010
The economics workings of the corporate income tax remain controversial. Harberger's seminal 1962 article viewed the … triggers the firm's classification as a corporation subject to income taxation. But going public has an upside. It permits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140993
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Simulating the Elimination of the U.S. Corporate Income Tax
Fehr, Hans - 2013
income tax produces rapid and dramatic increases in the model's level of U.S. investment, output, and real wages, making the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071508
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The Incidence and Efficiency Costs of Corporate Taxation When Corporate and Noncorporate Firms Produce the Same Good
Gravelle, Jane - 2010
This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Arnold Harberger's celebrated model of the corporation income tax … understanding the incidence and excess burden of the corporate income tax remains in question. One difficulty confronting all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760229