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Dee, Thomas S. - 2003

important justifications for government intervention in the market for education. In this study, I present evidence on whether … these externalities exist. I assess and implement two strategies for identifying the effects of educational attainment. One …

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Estimating the returns to schooling using cohort-level maternal education as an instrument

Winters, John V. - In: Economics letters 126 (2015), pp. 25-27

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The cost of attending an elite college

Song, Hong - In: Economics letters 159 (2017), pp. 173-176

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Parental education, labor market experience and earnings : new wine in an old bottle?

Hudson, John; Sessions, John G. - In: Economics letters 113 (2011) 2, pp. 112-115

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Educational Inequality

Azuma, Yoshiaki - 2001

This paper develops a theoretical model that relates changes in educational inequality to the combined effects of innovations that have increased the relative demand for more educated labor and innovations that have increased ability premiums. Under the assumption that in the long run individual...

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Schooling, Labor Force Quality, and Economic Growth

Hanushek, Eric A. - 1995

Human capital is almost always identified as a crucial ingredient for growing economies, but empirical investigations of cross-national growth have done little to clarify the dimensions of relevant human capital or any implications for policy. This paper concentrates on the importance of labor...

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Testing the Sorting Model of Education

Weiss, Andrew - 1984

ability to perform complex tasks. The data suggests that the sorting effect of education is an important determinant of …

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Educational Screening and Occupational Earnings

Wolff, Edward N. - 1977

The educational screening hypothesis states that beyond a certain point schooling functions as a signaling device to identify pre-existing talents. We test for the presence of screening by comparing the schooling and earnings of self-employed workers and of those employed by others in a sample...

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The Non-Market Benefits of Education and Ability

Heckman, James J. - 2017

This paper analyzes the non-market benefits of education and ability. Using a dynamic model of educational choice we … estimate returns to education that account for selection bias and sorting on gains. We investigate a range of non … patterns of returns that depend on the levels of schooling and ability. Unlike the monetary benefits of education, the benefits …

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The Long-Run Impacts of Early Childhood Education : Evidence From a Failed Policy Experiment

DeCicca, Philip - 2011

We investigate short and long-term effects of early childhood education using variation created by a unique policy …

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