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Returns to Education in Professional Football
Böheim, René; Lackner, Mario - 2011
surprisingly similar to returns to formal education. The results of our analysis provide information for the players who are …
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Education and optimal dynamic taxation: The role of income-contingent student loans
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2012
We study Pareto optimal tax and education policies when human capital upon labor market entry is endogenous and … individuals face wage uncertainty. Though optimal labor distortions are history-dependent, i.e. depend on income and education …-contingent loans. To take themodel to the (US) data, we simplify the model to a binary education decision (graduating from college or …
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Early life environment and racial inequality in education and earnings in the United States
Chay, Kenneth Y.; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2014
years immediately after birth. This study analyzes whether the across-cohort patterns in the black-white education and …-of-test taking. With Census data, we find: i) a significant narrowing across the same cohorts in education gaps driven primarily by a … gains is greater than can be explained by only the black gains in education and test scores for reasonable estimates of the …
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Separating uncertainty from heterogeneity in life cycle earnings
Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J.; Navarro, Salvador - 2005
This paper develops and applies a method for decomposing cross section variability of earnings into components that are forecastable at the time students decide to go to college (heterogeneity) and components that are unforecastable. About 60 % of variability in returns to schooling is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317969
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Race, social class, and bulimia nervosa
Goeree, Michelle S.; Ham, John C.; Iorio, Daniela - 2012
In this paper we explore a serious eating disorder, bulimia nervosa (BN), which afflicts a surprising number of girls in the US. We challenge the long-held belief that BN primarily affects high income White teenagers, using a unique data set on adolescent females evaluated regarding their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316836
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Technology's edge: The educational benefits of computer-aided instruction
Barrow, Lisa; Markham, Lisa; Rouse, Cecilia Elena - 2007
investing heavily in computerized curriculums as a way to enhance education output, even though there is surprisingly little …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292103
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Capital-skill complementarity and inequality: a sensitivity analysis
Polgreen, Linnea; Silos, Pedro - 2005
In "Capital-Skill Complementarity and Inequality: A Macroeconomic Analysis," Krusell et al. (2000) analyzed the capital-skill complementarity hypothesis as an explanation for the behavior of the U.S. skill premium. This paper shows that their model’s fit and the values of the estimated...
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Income and education of the states of the United States: 1840–2000
Baier, Scott; Mulholland, Sean; Turner, Chad; Tamura, Robert - 2004
This article introduces original annual average years of schooling measures for each state from 1840 to 2000. The paper also combines original data on real state per-worker output with existing data to provide a more comprehensive series of real state output per worker from 1840 to 2000. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397616
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Labor market discrimination and racial differences in premarket factors
Carneiro, Pedro; Heckman, James J.; Masterov, Dimitriy V. - 2005
. Adjusting the scores for racial/ethnic differences in education at the time the test is taken reduces their role in accounting … for the wage gaps. We also consider evidence on parental and child expectations about education and on stereotype …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317899
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College achievement and earnings
Gemus, Jonathan - 2010
I study the size and sources of the monetary return to college achievement as measured by cumulative Grade Point Average (GPA). I first present evidence that the return to achievement is large and statistically significant. I find, however, that this masks variation in the return across...
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