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Educational choice, initial wage and wage growth

Mazza, Jacopo; Ophem, Hans van - 2020

We investigate the major choice of college graduates where we make choice dependent on expected initial wages and expected wage growth per major. We build a model that allows us to estimate these factors semiparametrically and that corrects for selection bias. We estimate the model on the...

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Earnings risk and demand for higher education

Hartog, Joop; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2002

pivotal role of risk attitudes and the schooling gradient of earnings risk. We use Spanish data to document the gradient and … to estimate individual response to earnings risk in deciding on attending university education, by measuring risk as the … risk aversion, the response may be reversed to positive. …

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Risk and Returns to Education

Brown, Jeffrey R. - 2012

We analyze the returns to education in a life-cycle framework that incorporates risk preferences, earnings volatility …

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The Labor of Division : Returns to Compulsory High School Math Coursework

Goodman, Joshua - 2017

Despite great focus on and public investment in STEM education, little causal evidence connects quantitative coursework to students' economic outcomes. I show that state changes in minimum high school math requirements substantially increase Black students' completed math coursework and their...

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Validating Teacher Effect Estimates Using Changes in Teacher Assignments in Los Angeles

Bacher-Hicks, Andrew - 2014

In a widely cited study, Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff (2014a; hereafter CFR) evaluate the degree of bias in teacher value-added estimates using a novel "teacher switching" research design with data from New York City. They conclude that there is little to no bias in their estimates. Using the same...

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The Long Run Human Capital and Economic Consequences of High-Stakes Examinations

Lavy, Victor - 2014

Cognitive performance during high-stakes exams can be affected by random disturbances that, even if transitory, may have permanent consequences for long-term schooling attainment and labor market outcomes. We evaluate this hypothesis among Israeli high school students who took a series of high...

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What Do Test Scores Miss? The Importance of Teacher Effects on Non-Test Score Outcomes

Kirabo Jackson, C. - 2016

This paper extends the traditional test-score value-added model of teacher quality to allow for the possibility that teachers affect a variety of student outcomes through their effects on both students' cognitive and noncognitive skill. Results show that teachers have effects on skills not...

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Trade Liberalization and the Skill Premium : A Local Labor Markets Approach

Dix-Carneiro, Rafael - 2015

We develop a specific-factors model of regional economies that includes two types of workers, skilled and unskilled. The model delivers a simple equation relating trade-induced local shocks to changes in local skill premia. We apply the methodology to Brazil's early 1990s trade liberalization...

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Medicaid as an Investment in Children : What is the Long-Term Impact on Tax Receipts?

Brown, David - 2015

We examine the long-term impact of expansions to Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program that occurred in the 1980's and 1990's. With administrative data from the IRS, we calculate longitudinal health insurance eligibility from birth to age 18 for children in cohorts affected...

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Do Low Levels of Blood Lead Reduce Children's Future Test Scores?

Aizer, Anna - 2016

We construct a unique individual-level longitudinal dataset linking preschool blood lead levels with third grade test scores for eight birth cohorts of Rhode Island children born between 1997 and 2005. Using these data, we show that reductions of lead from even historically low levels have...

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