Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Acronyms -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Linear static models -- 3 Dealing with heterogeneity and endogeneity: fixed effects, IV and GMM -- 4 Outliers, missing values and other data issues -- 5 Linear dynamic models -- 6 Models with limited...

We develop and estimate a dynamic model to study the impact of student debt on education, career, and marriage market choices of young female lawyers. Our model accounts for several important institutional features of the labor market for lawyers, including differences in the work hours across...