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Schooling and the Afqt : Evidence from School Entry Laws

Cascio, Elizabeth U.; Lewis, Ethan - 2021

Is the Armed Forces Qualifying Test (AFQT) a measure of achievement or ability? The answer to this question is critical for drawing inferences from studies in which it is employed. In this paper, we test for a relationship between schooling and AFQT performance in the NLSY 79 by comparing...

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Education and Screening

Wolpin, Kenneth I. - 2021

Section I introduces the material. In section II a model is developed which explores the impact of input-quality uncertainty on factor demand from which is derived a rationale for the use of devices which segment the population into classes differing in their "skill" distribution parameters. The...

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The Relationship between Education and Adult Mortality in the United States

Lleras-Muney, Adriana - 2021

Prior research has uncovered a large and positive correlation between education and health. This paper examines whether … education has a causal impact on health. I follow synthetic cohorts using successive U.S. censuses to estimate the impact of … educational attainment on mortality rates. I use compulsory education laws from 1915 to 1939 as instruments for education. The …

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Does Education Reduce Teen Fertility? Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws

DeCicca, Philip - 2015

education on teen fertility for a large sample of women drawn from multiple waves of the Canadian Census. We find that greater … find evidence that education affects the timing of births in a way that strongly implies an “incarceration” effect of … education. In particular, we find large negative impacts of education on births to young women aged seventeen and eighteen, but …

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Punishment and Cooperation in Stochastic Social Dilemmas

Xiao, Erte; Kunreuther, Howard - 2021

Previous findings on punishment have focused on environments in which the outcomes are known with certainty. In this paper, we conduct experiments to investigate how punishment affects cooperation in a two-person stochastic prisoner's dilemma environment where each person can decide whether or...

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You've Earned it : Combining Field and Lab Experiments to Estimate the Impact of Human Capital on Social Preferences

Jakiela, Pamela - 2010

income, and shifts players toward a 50-50 split norm in the dictator game. This study demonstrates that education may have …

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What Do Parents Value in Education? An Empirical Investigation of Parents' Revealed Preferences for Teachers

Jacob, Brian Aaron; Lefgren, Lars - 2021

This paper examines revealed parent preferences for their children's education using a unique data set that includes …

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Elasticities of Demand for Educated Labor and Elasticities of Supply of Educated Labor

Freeman, Richard B. - 2021

This paper reviews a variety of estimates of the demand and supply elasticities of educated labor. It finds that elasticities of substitution between more and less educated labor range fran 1.0 to 2.0 and that elasticities of the supply of students to colleges are also on the order of 1.0 to 2.0...

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A Fundamental Enforcement Cost Advantage of the Negligence Rule Over Regulation

Shavell, Steven - 2012

Regulation and the negligence rule are both designed to obtain compliance with desired standards of behavior, but they differ in a primary respect: compliance with regulation is ordinarily assessed independently of the occurrence of harm, whereas compliance with the negligence rule is evaluated...

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The Political Economy of Weak Treaties

Battaglini, Marco - 2016

In recent decades, democratic countries have signed hundreds of international environmental agreements (IEAs). Most of these agreements, however, are weak: they generally do not include effective enforcement or monitoring mechanisms. This is a puzzle in standard economic models. To study this...

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