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How'S Life? Combining Individual and National Variables to Explain Subjective Well-Being

Helliwell, John F. - 2021

the main variables used, a report of results and tests, and discussion of the links among social capital, education …

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Historical Perspectives on Racial Differences in Schooling in the United States

Collins, William J.; Margo, Robert A. - 2021

African-Americans entered the post-Civil War era with extremely low levels of exposure to schooling. Relying primarily on micro-level census data, we describe racial differences in literacy rates, school attendance, years of educational attainment, age-in-grade distributions, spending per pupil,...

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Education and Religion

Sacerdote, Bruce; Glaeser, Edward L. - 2021

In the United States, religious attendance rises sharply with education across individuals, but religious attendance … declines sharply with education across denominations. This puzzle is explained if education both increases the returns to … social connection and reduces the extent of religious belief. The positive effect of education on sociability explains the …

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Does School Quality Matter? Returns to Education and the Characteristics of Public Schools in the United States

Card, David; Krueger, Alan B. - 2021

, and the relative pay of teachers -- on the rate of return to education for men born between 1920 and 1949. Using earnings … education in the region where they currently reside, and other factors. A decrease in the pupil-teacher ratio from 30 to 25, for … example, is associated with a 0.4 percentage point increase in the rate of return to education. The estimated relationship …

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Sorting, Education and Inequality

Fernández, Raquel - 2021

This paper examines the education literature through the lens of sorting. It argues that how individuals sort across …. It discusses the implications of different education finance systems for sorting and analyzes the efficiency and welfare …

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Schooling, Labor Force Quality, and Economic Growth

Hanushek, Eric A.; Kim, Dongwook - 2000

Human capital is almost always identified as a crucial ingredient for growing economies, but empirical investigations of cross-national growth have done little to clarify the dimensions of relevant human capital or any implications for policy. This paper concentrates on the importance of labor...

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Estimates of the Economic Return to Schooling from a New Sample of Twins

Ashenfelter, Orley; Krueger, Alan B. - 2021

This paper uses a new survey to contrast the wages of genetically identical twins with different schooling levels. Multiple measurements of schooling levels were also collected to assess the effect of reporting error on the estimated economic returns to schooling. The data indicate that omitted...

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The Effects of High School Curriculum on Education and Labor Market Outcomes

Altonji, Joseph G. - 2021

education and on success in the labor market. I use the large variation in curriculum across US high schools to identify the …

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Single-Sex Schools, Student Achievement, and Course Selection : Evidence from Rule-Based Student Assignments in Trinidad and Tobago

Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2011

Existing studies on single-sex schooling suffer from biases because students who attend single-sex schools differ in unmeasured ways from those who do not. In Trinidad and Tobago students are assigned to secondary schools based on an algorithm allowing one to address self-selection bias and...

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A Darwinian Perspective on "Exchange Rate Undervaluation"

Du, Qingyuan - 2011

Though the real exchange rate is a key price for most economies, our understanding of its determinants is still incomplete. This paper studies the implications of status competition in the marriage market for the real exchange rate. In theory, a rise in the sex ratio (increasing relative surplus...

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