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Earnings, Schooling, and Ability Revisited
Card, David - 2021
This paper presents a survey and interpretation of recent research on the return to education. The empirical findings … in a series of current papers suggest that the causal effect of education on earnings is understated by standard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239940
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Education and Self-Selection
Willis, Robert J.; Rosen, Sherwin - 2021
A structural model of the demand for college attendance is derived from the theory of comparative advantage and recent statistical models of self-selection and unobserved components. Estimates from NBER-Thorndike data strongly support the theory. First, expected lifetime earnings gains influence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243393
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Suffrage, Schooling, and Sorting in the Post-Bellum U.S. South
Naidu, Suresh - 2012
This paper estimates the political and economic effects of the 19th century disenfranchisement of black citizens in the U.S. South. Using adjacent county-pairs that straddle state boundaries, I examine the effect of voting restrictions on political competition, public goods, and factor markets....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105449
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013240539
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Investment in U.S. Education and Training
Mincer, Jacob - 2021
The current high rates of return to human capital stimulate a supply response via increased investments in education … differential in wages. This paper reports estimates of: the responses of investments in post-secondary education, measured by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013211654
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243437
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Life at the Top : The Benefits of Height
Deaton, Angus - 2011
explained by the positive association between height and both income and education, both of which are positively linked to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134585
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The Long-Run Impacts of Early Childhood Education : Evidence from a Failed Policy Experiment
DeCicca, Philip - 2011
We investigate short and long-term effects of early childhood education using variation created by a unique policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124550
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Financial Literacy, Financial Education and Economic Outcomes
Hastings, Justine S. - 2012
In this article we review the literature on financial literacy, financial education, and consumer financial outcomes … addresses whether financial education improves financial literacy or personal financial outcomes. We discuss the extent to which … on the efficacy and cost of financial education. Finally, we discuss directions for future research …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100358
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The Impact of Physical Education on Obesity Among Elementary School Children
Cawley, John - 2012
have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101508