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different education levels and on the recent growth of U.S. educational wage differentials. A simple supply-demand framework is … used to interpret changes in the relative quantities, wages, and wage bill shares of workers by education in the aggregate … computer technology may `explain' as much as 30-50% of the increase in the rate of growth of the relative demand for more …
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be correlated with both job-related computer use and earnings. The estimates suggest that workers who use computers on … education, Finally, occupations that experienced greater growth in computer use between 1984 and 1989 also experienced above …
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Although schools across the country are investing heavily in computers in the classroom, there is surprisingly little …-defined use of computers in schools: a popular instructional computer program, known as Fast ForWord, which is designed to improve …
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This paper uses a new survey to contrast the wages of genetically identical twins with different schooling levels. Multiple measurements of schooling levels were also collected to assess the effect of reporting error on the estimated economic returns to schooling. The data indicate that omitted...
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, and the relative pay of teachers -- on the rate of return to education for men born between 1920 and 1949. Using earnings … education in the region where they currently reside, and other factors. A decrease in the pupil-teacher ratio from 30 to 25, for … example, is associated with a 0.4 percentage point increase in the rate of return to education. The estimated relationship …
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Public opinion influences politicians, and therefore influences public policy decisions. What are the roles of self-interest, knowledge, and ideology in public opinion formation? And how do people learn about economic issues? Using a new, specially-designed survey, we find that most respondents...
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