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A Cross-Cohort Analysis of Human Capital Specialization and the College Gender Wage Gap
Sloane, Carolyn - 2019
In this paper, we exploit new data to assess gender differences in pre-labor market specialization among the college educated and highlight how those differences have evolved over time. We highlight new results pertaining to gender differences in the mapping between undergraduate major and...
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Why the Apple Doesn't Fall Far : Understanding Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2022
Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014158648
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Education and Nonmarket Outcomes
Grossman, Michael - 2021
I explore the effects of education on nonmarket outcomes from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Examples of …-being reflected by their health and cognitive development. I pay a good deal of attention to the effects of education on health … education has productive efficiency and allocative efficiency effects. I then modify these frameworks to allow for the …
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Mother'S Education and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital : Evidence from College Openings and Longitudinal Data
Currie, Janet; Moretti, Enrico - 2021
We estimate the effect of maternal education on birth outcomes using data from the Vital Statistics Natality files for … 1970 to 1999. We also assess the importance of four potential channels through which maternal education may improve birth … education on changes in birth outcomes. Second, we have compiled a new data set on openings of two and four year colleges …
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Education and Unemployment
Mincer, Jacob - 2021
A major benefit of education is the lower risk of unemployment at higher educational levels. In PSID (Panel Study of …
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Mental Health, Creativity, and Wealth
Biasi, Barbara; Dahl, Michael S.; Moser, Petra - 2023
Focusing on bipolar disorder (BD), we investigate the link between mental health, creativity, and wealth. Analyzing population data for Denmark, we find that people with BD are more likely to be musicians, but less likely to hold other creative jobs than the population. Healthy siblings of...
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Sorting in the Labor Market : Do Gregarious Workers Flock to Interactive Jobs?
Krueger, Alan B. - 2010
This paper tests a central implication of the theory of equalizing differences, that workers sort into jobs with different attributes based on their preferences for those attributes. We present evidence from four new time-use data sets for the United States and France on whether workers who are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760184
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Stature and Status : Height, Ability, and Labor Market Outcomes
Case, Anne - 2010
It has long been recognized that taller adults hold jobs of higher status and, on average, earn more than other workers. A large number of hypotheses have been put forward to explain the association between height and earnings. In developed countries, researchers have emphasized factors such as...
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Occupational Choice and Development
Eeckhout, Jan - 2014
The rise in world trade since 1970 has raised international mobility of labor services. We study the effect of such a globalization of the world's labor markets. We find that when people can choose between wage work and managerial work, the output gains are U-shaped: A worldwide labor market...
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