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greater inequality. To investigate this we construct a dynamic model of intergenerational education acquisition, fertility … fertility and education, a decreasing marginal effect of parental education on children's years of education, and wages that are …
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-economic effects in terms of living standards, education, health, and gender equality, which appear to be unprecedented in depth and …
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ability to perform complex tasks. The data suggests that the sorting effect of education is an important determinant of …
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Because much of the concern about youth unemployment is motivated by the large differences between the rates for blacks and whites, we have pursued our earlier work by analyzing separately for black and white youth the relationship between high school preparation and early labor force...
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education and marital status though the marital effects are much weaker when we condition for prior health. These effects …
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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...
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The educational screening hypothesis states that beyond a certain point schooling functions as a signaling device to identify pre-existing talents. We test for the presence of screening by comparing the schooling and earnings of self-employed workers and of those employed by others in a sample...
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It can be claimed that education is simply a normal consumption good and that like all other normal goods, an increase …
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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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between education and allocative efficiency. Section I is reprinted from my J.P.E. paper "Education in Production". Section II …
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