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Household characteristics, ability and education : evidence from a dynamic expected utility model
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 1999
We estimate a Dynamic Programming model of the decision between continuing schooling or entering the labor market using a panel from the National Longitudinal Survey (NLSY). The model, set in an expected utility framework (with a power utility function), fits data on both schooling attainments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295416
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Subjective discount rates, intergenerational transfers and the return to schooling
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 1999
into a 1% productivity (wage) growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011313951
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Subjective discount rates, intergenerational transfers and the return to schooling
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 1999
into a 1% productivity (wage) growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001436066
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Household characteristics, ability and education : evidence from a dynamic expected utility model
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 1999
We estimate a Dynamic Programming model of the decision between continuing schooling or entering the labor market using a panel from the National Longitudinal Survey (NLSY). The model, set in an expected utility framework (with a power utility function), fits data on both schooling attainments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001370890
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Subjective Discount Rates, Intergenerational Transfers and the Return to Schooling
Hansen, Jörgen; Belzil, Christian - 2004
(wage) growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014179293
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Country of origin and immigrant earnings,1960-2000 : a human capital investment perspective
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Marc - 2014
process in which unmeasured variables jointly affect initial conditions and subsequent growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434496
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Country of origin, earnings convergence, and human capital investment : a new method for the analysis of U.S. immigrant economic assimilation
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2018
inverse relationship between initial earnings and earnings growth rates: the good fit between data and theory suggests that … earnings growth of post-1965 U.S. immigrants. When both functional-form and sample-selection constraints are lifted, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130585
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How the earnings growth of U.S. immigrants was underestimated
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2021
immigrant men following the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act have low initial earnings and high earnings growth. Another … asserts that post-1965 immigrants have low initial earnings and low earnings growth. We describe the methodological issues … that create this divide and show that low earnings growth becomes high earnings growth when immigrants are followed from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012500969
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Country of Origin and Immigrant Earnings, 1960-2000 : A Human Capital Investment Perspective
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2014
process in which unmeasured variables jointly affect initial conditions and subsequent growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043685