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Family Structure and Child Outcomes in the United States and Sweden
Bjorklund, Anders; Ginther, Donna K.; Sundstrom, Marianne - 2021
children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family … United States and Sweden is interesting because both family structure and public policy environments in the two countries … differ significantly. Family structure could potentially have a less negative effect in Sweden than in the United States …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319100
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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/10011536082
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Understanding the mechanisms through which an influential early childhood program boosted adult outcomes
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Savelyev, Peter - 2012
A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the mechanisms producing these impacts. This paper uses longitudinal data on cognitive and personality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009675522
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A note on measures of human capital for immigrants : examining the American Community Survey and New Immigrant Survey
Akee, Randall (contributor); Yuksel, Mutlu (contributor) - 2008
In this paper we examine whether where one acquires their human capital matters in earnings regressions. We focus on a nationally-representative US data set and find that there is little difference between a measure of total years of education and measures for US and foreign-based years of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793393
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Does the choice of reference levels of education matter in the ORU earnings equation?
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009
This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation/under-education (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference levels of education are measured using the Realized Matches or Worker Self-Assessment methods. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003894826
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ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009
This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898600
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The effects of school quality in the origin on the payoff to schooling for immigrants
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010
The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The paper uses the Over-education/ Required...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688727
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Beyond the classroom : using title IX to measure the return to high school sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates - to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates - in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003938718
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The GED
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - 2010
The General Educational Development (GED) credential is issued on the basis of an eight hour subject-based test. The test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college and positions in the labor market. In 2008 alone, almost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003969747
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The consumption value of higher education
Alstadsæter, Annette; Sievertsen, Hans Henrik - 2009
The consumption value of higher education is an important factor behind the individual's educational choice. We provide a comprehensive literature survey, and define the consumption value as the private, intended, non-pecuniary return to higher education. We provide new empirical evidence for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922852