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) survey eliciting from high school students and college undergraduates their expectations of the income they would earn if …
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Econometric analyses of treatment response commonly use instrumental variable (IV) assumptions to identify treatment effects. Yet the credibility of IV assumptions is often a matter of considerable disagreement, with much debate about whether some covariate is or is not a "valid instrument" in...
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Perceived shortcomings in the quality of American education at the elementary and secondary school levels have drawn much public attention recently. In particular, concern with the composition of the teacher force has been prominent. Informed assessment of the various proposals for increasing...
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We have collected data on the one-year-ahead income expectations of members of American households in our Survey of … income-expectations questions take this form: `What do you think is the percent chance (or what are the chances out of 100 …) that your total household income, before taxes, will be less than Y over the next 12 months?' We use the responses to a …
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The merits of alternative income tax policies depend on the population distribution of preferences for income, leisure …, and public goods. Standard theory, which supposes that persons want more income and more leisure, does not predict how … beyond the presumption that persons prefer more income and leisure. This shows that observation of a person's labor supply …
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