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Dynamic Skill Accumulation, Education Policies and the Return to Schooling

Belzil, Christian - 2017

Using a dynamic skill accumulation model of schooling and labor supply with learning-by-doing, we decompose early life-cycle wage growth of U.S. white males into four main sources: education, hours worked, cognitive skills (AFQT scores) and unobserved heterogeneity, and evaluate the effect of...

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Country of Origin and Immigrant Earnings, 1960-2000 : A Human Capital Investment Perspective

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2014

Using microdata from the 1960-2000 decennial censuses, this paper explores how large initial differences in immigrant earnings by country of origin change with duration in the United States. One analysis reveals that country of origin adds less to the explanation of earnings, among working-age...

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The Return to Schooling in Structural Dynamic Models : A Survey

Belzil, Christian - 2006

This paper contains a survey of the recent literature devoted to the returns to schooling within a dynamic structural framework. I present a historical perspective on the evolution of the literature, from early static models set in a selectivity framework (Willis and Rosen, 1979) to the recent...

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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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The Timing of Earnings Sampling Over the Life-Cycle and IV Identification of the Return to Schooling

Belzil, Christian - 2012

We show that within a life-cycle skill accumulation model, IV identification of the return to schooling parameter is either achieved at any point in the life-cycle where the level of skills accumulated beyond school completion for compliers is exactly equal to the post-schooling skill level of...

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A Structural Analysis of the Correlated Random Coefficient Wage Regression Model with an Application to the Ols-Iv Puzzle

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jorgen - 2021

We estimate a finite mixture dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the log wage regression function is set within a correlated random coefficient model and we use the structural estimates to perform counterfactual experiments. We show that the estimates of the dynamic...

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Earnings Dispersion, Risk Aversion and Education

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jorgen - 2021

We estimate a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the degree of risk aversion can be inferred from schooling decisions. In our model, individuals are heterogeneous with respect to school and market abilities but homogeneous with respect to the degree of risk aversion. We...

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Testing the Specification of the Mincer Wage Equation

Belzil, Christian - 2021

I perform the joint estimation of a reduced-form dynamic model of the transition from one grade level to the next, and a Mincer wage equation, using panel data taken from the NLSY. A very high degree of flexibility is achieved by approximating the distributions of idiosyncractic grade transition...

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Educational Attainment of Second-Generation Immigrants : A U.S.-Canada Comparison

Liu, Xingfei - 2014

family background is closely related to educational attainment of white children of immigrants in both countries. Moreover … between children of immigrants and children of natives.Results from counterfactual simulations suggest that incentive …

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A Structural Model of Educational Attainment in Canada

Hansen, Jorgen - 2013

benefits from investing in education. The results suggest that the effect of an increase in parental income on educational … attainment is modest. For example, a 25 percent increase in parental income is predicted to increase post-secondary education … (PSE) attendance by one percent only. However, our results indicate that financial resources, other than parental income …

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