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Employer Learning and the Signaling Value of Education

Altonji, Joseph G. - 1996

use easily observable characteristics such as years of education to 'statistically discriminate' among workers. The pure … credential value of education will depend on how quickly firms learn. To obtain information on employer learning, we work with a … education. The time path of the coefficient on the unobservable productivity variable provides information about the rate at …

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The Effects of School and Family Characteristics on the Return to Education

Altonji, Joseph G. - 1995

We measure the effects of parental education on the education profile of wages. The analysis uses sibling pairs from … holding family background constant. We obtained mixed evidence on whether parental education raises the return to education …

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

Altonji, Joseph G. - 1992

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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Individual Earnings and Family Income : Dynamics and Distribution

Altonji, Joseph G.; Hynsjö, Disa M.; Vidangos, Ivan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

model. We then turn to models of individual earnings that are based on wages, employment, job mobility, and hours. These … influence earnings through employment, job mobility, general productivity, or hours. Finally, we consider models of lifetime …

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The Effects of Advanced Degrees on the Wage Rates, Hours, Earnings and Job Satisfaction of Women and Men

Altonji, Joseph G.; Humphries, John Eric; Zhong, Ling - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper uses a college-by-graduate degree fixed effects estimator to evaluate the returns to 19 different graduate degrees for men and women. We find substantial variation across degrees, and evidence that OLS overestimates the returns to degrees with high average earnings and underestimates...

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Modeling Earnings Dynamics

Altonji, Joseph G. - 2009

In this paper we use indirect inference to estimate a joint model of earnings, employment, job changes, wage rates, and …

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Innovators : Filmmakers

Galenson, David W. - 2010

John Ford and Alfred Hitchcock were experimental filmmakers: both believed images were more important to movies than words, and considered movies a form of entertainment. Their styles developed gradually over long careers, and both made the films that are generally considered their greatest...

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Innovators : Architects

Galenson, David W. - 2010

Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Frank Gehry were experimental architects: all worked visually, and arrived at their designs by discovering forms as they sketched. Their styles evolved gradually over long periods, and all three produced the buildings that are generally considered their...

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Wisdom and Creativity in Old Age : Lessons from the Impressionists

Galenson, David W. - 2007

Psychologists have not considered wisdom and creativity to be closely associated. This reflects their failure to recognize that creativity is not exclusively the result of bold discoveries by young conceptual innovators. Important advances can equally be made by older, experimental innovators....

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Painting by Proxy : The Conceptual Artist as Manufacturer

Galenson, David W. - 2006

In 1958, the French philosopher Etienne Gilson observed that "painters are related to manual laborers by a deep-rooted affinity that nothing can eliminate," because painting was the one art in which the person who conceives the work is also necessarily the person who executes it. Conceptual...

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