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Education, Work, and Crime : A Human Capital Approach

Lochner, Lance - 2004

This paper develops a model of crime in which human capital increases the opportunity cost of crime from foregone work and expected costs associated with incarceration. Older, more intelligent, and more educated adults should commit fewer street (unskilled) crimes. White collar crimes decline...

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Family Inequality : Diverging Patterns in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing

Lundberg, Shelly - 2016

The last 60 years have seen the emergence of a dramatic socioeconomic gradient in marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and childbearing. The divide is between college graduates and others: those without four-year degrees have family patterns and trajectories very similar to those of high school...

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The Changing Role of Family Income and Ability in Determining Educational Achievement

Belley, Philippe - 2007

This paper uses data from the 1979 and 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth cohorts (NLSY79 and NLSY97) to estimate changes in the effects of ability and family income on educational attainment for youth in their late teens during the early 1980s and early 2000s. Cognitive ability plays an...

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Allocating Household Time : When Does Efficiency Imply Specialization?

Pollak, Robert A. - 2013

' time inputs are perfect substitutes in household production. With no further assumptions (other than efficiency and the … households optimally adjusting spouses' stocks of market and household human capital, the specialization conclusion does not …, regardless of the levels at which they are fixed. Other assumptions about household technology also imply the specialization …

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The Unintended Impacts of Agricultural Fires : Human Capital in China

Zivin, Joshua S. Graff - 2019

detected by high-resolution satellites in China during 2005 to 2011, this paper investigates the impacts of fires on cognitive …

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Target setting and Allocative Inefficiency in Lending : Evidence from Two Chinese Banks

Cao, Yiming - 2018

We study the consequences of month-end lending incentives for Chinese bank managers. Using data from two banks, one state-owned and the other partially privatized, we show a clear increase in lending in the final days of each month, a result of both more loan issuance and higher value per loan....

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