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Estimating the Return to Schooling : Progress on Some Persistent Econometric Problems

Card, David - 2000

This paper reviews a set of recent studies that have attempted to measure the causal effect of education on labor market earnings by using institutional features of the supply side of the education system as exogenous determinants of schooling outcomes. A simple theoretical model that highlights...

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Can Falling Supply Explain the Rising Return to College for Younger Men? A Cohort-Based Analysis

Card, David - 2000

Although the college-high school wage gap for younger men has doubled over the past 30 years, the gap for older men has remained nearly constant. We argue that these shifts reflect changes in the relative supply of highly-educated workers across age groups. Cohorts born in the first half of the...

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Education, Earnings, and the "Canadian G.I. Bill"

Lemieux, Thomas - 1998

We use the unique experiences of Canadian World War II veterans to identify the effects of a large scale college subsidy program on educational attainment and earnings. Like the United States, Canada set up an extensive veteran's assistance program that provided financial aid and institutional...

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School Resources and Student Outcomes : An Overview of the Literature and New Evidence from North and South Carolina

Card, David - 1996

This paper reviews and interprets the literature on the effect of school resources on students' eventual earnings and … black and white students in North and South Carolina that existed in the first half of the 20th century, and the subsequent …

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Labor Market Effects of School Quality : Theory and Evidence

Card, David - 1996

This paper presents an overview and interpretation of the literature relating school quality to students' subsequent … education. We then summarize the literature that relates school resources to students' earnings and educational attainment. A … variety of evidence suggests that students who were educated in schools with more resources tend to earn more and have higher …

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Using Geographic Variation in College Proximity to Estimate the Return to Schooling

Card, David - 1993

affirm that marginal returns to education among children of less-educated parents are as high and perhaps much higher than … education and earnings than other men. The education and earnings gains are concentrated among men with poorly-educated parents …

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Wage Dispersion, Returns to Skill, and Black-White Wage Differentials

Card, David - 1993

During the 1980s wage differentials between younger and older workers and between more and less educated workers expanded rapidly. Wage dispersion among individuals with the same age and education also rose. A simple explanation for both sets of facts is that earnings represent a return to a...

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School Competition and Efficiency with Publicly Funded Catholic Schools

Card, David - 2008

to all students, and separate schools that are open to children with Catholic backgrounds. The systems are administered … competition on the growth rate of student achievement. The estimates suggest that extending competition to all students would …

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