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The Long-Run Effects of Attending an Elite School : Evidence from the UK

Clark, Damon - 2014

This paper estimates the impact of elite school attendance on long-run outcomes including completed education, income … and fertility. Our data consists of individuals born in the 1950s and educated in a UK district that assigned students to …

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Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models by Maximum Likelihood and the Simulated Method of Moments

Eisenhauer, Philipp - 2014

We compare the performance of maximum likelihood (ML) and simulated method of moments (SMM) estimation for dynamic discrete choice models. We construct and estimate a simplified dynamic structural model of education that captures some basic features of educational choices in the United States in...

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Higher Education Funding Reforms : A Comprehensive Analysis of Educational and Labor Market Outcomes in England

Azmat, Ghazala - 2017

This paper investigates the impact of changes in the funding of higher education in England on students' choices and … in public universities moved from being free to students and state funded to charging substantial tuition fees to all … students. This was done in conjunction with the government offering generous means-tested maintenance grants and loans. Using …

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Be as Careful of the Books You Read as of the Company You Keep : Evidence on Peer Effects in Educational Choices

De Giorgi, Giacomo - 2007

students at Bocconi University and exploiting the organization of teaching at this institution, we are able to identify the … make the same choice. We estimate that, when it diverts students from majors in which they seem to have a relative ability …

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Within-Groups Wage Inequality and Schooling : Further Evidence for Portugal

Andini, Corrado - 2007

This paper provides further evidence on the positive impact of schooling on within-groups wage dispersion in Portugal, using data on male workers from the 2001 wave of the European Community Household Panel. The issue of schooling endogeneity is taken into account by using the newest available...

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The Returns to Education at Community Colleges : New Evidence from the Education Longitudinal Survey

Marcotte, Dave E. - 2016

students of limited means. Indeed, the recent #FreeTuition movement is built on community colleges as a cornerstone. Previous … that what we know comes from data collected from cohorts of students who studied in community colleges more than twenty …

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The Returns to Elite College Education : A Quasi-Experimental Analysis

Anelli, Massimo - 2016

admission threshold have 52% higher yearly income with respect to just-below-threshold students. This premium is equivalent to a … income premium. I find that students with a just-above-threshold score are less likely to be college dropouts, take six fewer … administrative records about high school, college admission, college attendance and tax returns. Students with score just above the …

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The Risk-Return Trade-Off in Human Capital Investment

Christiansen, Charlotte; Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Joensen, … - 2008

In this paper we analyze investments in human capital assets in a way which is standard for financial assets, but not (yet) for human capital assets. We study mean-variance plots of human capital assets. We compare the properties of human capital returns using a performance measure and by using...

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Dynamic Skill Accumulation, Comparative Advantages, Compulsory Schooling, and Earnings

Belzil, Christian - 2011

We show that a calibrated dynamic skill accumulation model allowing for comparative advantages, can explain the weak (or negative) effects of schooling on productivity that have been recently reported (i) in the micro literature on compulsory schooling, ii) in the micro literature on estimating...

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Average and Marginal Returns to Upper Secondary Schooling in Indonesia

Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2011

This paper estimates average and marginal returns to schooling in Indonesia using a non-parametric selection model. Identification of the model is given by exogenous geographic variation in access to upper secondary schools. We find that the return to upper secondary schooling varies widely...

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