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Human capital investments and expectations about career and family
Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2016
This paper studies how individuals believe human capital investments will affect their future career and family life … and family expectations help explain human capital choices. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796435
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Preference for the workplace, investment in human capital, and gender
Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2016
In this paper, we use a hypothetical choice methodology to robustly estimate preferences for workplace attributes. Undergraduate students are presented with sets of jobs that vary in their attributes (such as earnings and job hours flexibility) and asked to state their probabilistic choices. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011537997
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Agglomeration and job matching among college graduates
Abel, Jaison R.; Deitz, Richard - 2012
We study one potential source of urban agglomeration economies: better job matching. Focusing on college graduates, we construct two direct measures of job matching based on how well an individual's job corresponds to his or her college education. Consistent with matching-based theories of urban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333582
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The incentive effects of higher education subsidies on student effort
Sahin, Aysegül - 2004
This paper uses a game-theoretic model to analyze the disincentive effects of low-tuition policies on student effort. The model of parent and student responses to tuition subsidies is then calibrated using information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and the High School and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283370
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Gender discrimination and social identity: Experimental evidence from urban Pakistan
Delavande, Adeline; Zafar, Basit - 2013
Gender discrimination in South Asia is a well-documented fact. However, gender is only one of an individual's many … identities. This paper investigates how gender discrimination depends on the social identities of interacting parties. We use an … experimental approach to identify gender discrimination by randomly matching 2,836 male and female students pursuing bachelor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333624
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Gender representation in economics across topics and time: Evidence from the NBER Summer Institute
Chari, Anusha; Goldsmith-Pinkham, Paul - 2017
We document the representation of female economists on the conference programs at the NBER Summer Institute from 2001 to 2016. Over the 2013-16 period, women made up 20.6 percent of all authors on scheduled papers. However, there was large dispersion across programs, with the share of female...
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Gender and the availability of credit to privately held firms: Evidence from the surveys of small business finances
Cole, Rebel A.; Mehran, Hamid - 2009
This study analyzes differences by gender in the ownership of privately held U.S. firms and examines the role of gender … the differences by gender, we find that female-owned firms are 1) significantly smaller, as measured by sales, assets, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287094
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Human capital and economic activity in urban America
Abel, Jaison R.; Gabe, Todd M. - 2008
We examine the relationship between human capital and economic activity in U.S. metropolitan areas, extending the literature in two ways. First, we utilize new data on metropolitan area GDP to measure economic activity. Results show that a one-percentage-point increase in the proportion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283514
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Can increasing private school participation and monetary loss in a voucher program affect public school performance? Evidence from Milwaukee
Chakrabarti, Rajashri - 2007
control groups and using 1987-2002 data and a difference-in-differences estimation strategy in trends, the paper then shows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283382
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Productivity and the density of human capital
Abel, Jaison R.; Dey, Ishita; Gabe, Todd M. - 2010
area's stock of human capital. Estimation accounts for potential biases due to the endogeneity of density and industrial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287097