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Peers' composition effects in the short and in the long run : college major, college performance and income
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2015
in income or labor market outcomes after college. We do not find significant effects on women. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283120
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The effects of high school peers' gender on college major, college performance and income
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2016
not find significant effects of the high school class gender composition on women. Our results are consistent with the … size responds to class gender composition more for men than for women. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515310
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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
Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010442547
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Early Life Environment and Racial Inequality in Education and Earnings in the United States
Chay, Kenneth Y. - 2014
Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960s and early 1970s that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039967
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The changing benefits of early work experience
Baum, Charles L.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2014
restricted to women and have diminished over time for them. We are able to explain about five-eighths of the differential between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403493
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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 - 2022
degrees for men and women. We find substantial variation across degrees, and evidence that OLS over-estimates the returns to … women. Third, we estimate the net present value and internal rate of return for each degree, which account for the time and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805387
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Immigrant category of admission and the earnings of adults and children : how far does the apple fall?
Warman, Casey; Webb, Matthew; Worswick, Christopher - 2018
Adult Arrival parents and their Child Arrival children. We find, relative to the Family Class, the Adult Arrivals in the … Skilled Worker category have earnings that are 29% higher for men and 38% higher for women. These differences persist even … women. Child Arrival immigrants landing in the Skilled Worker Class have earnings advantages (as adults) over their Family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131428
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Estimating the returns to schooling using cohort-level maternal education as an instrument
Winters, John V. - 2014
Community Survey to examine the effect of formal schooling on worker wages. Given the potential endogeneity of education … censuses. The instrumental variables results suggest that schooling has a significant positive effect on worker wages …. Specifically, an additional year or schooling is estimated to increase hourly wages by 10 percent for men and 12.6 percent for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434601
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The Labor Market Effects of English Language Proficiency : Communication Skills and the Occupational Choice of Childhood Immigrants to the United States
Hlavac, Marek - 2013
occupations. Following Bleakley and Chin (2004; 2010), I use an instrumental variables approach that exploits young children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072219
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The returns to school-quality-adjusted education of immigrants in Germany
Quang, Huy Le; Vallizadeh, Ehsan - In: Journal for labour market research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-15
This paper explores the role of school quality in immigrants' home countries on their earnings in Germany, using native Germans as a benchmark. We propose an empirical analysis that highlights two important insights. First, there is a substantial gap in the returns to education between natives...
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