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Does School Quality Matter? Returns to Education and the Characteristics of Public Schools in the United States

Card, David - 1990

, 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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The Role of Education : Mobility Increasing or Mobility Impeding?

Borsch-Supan, Axel - 1987

This paper studies the influence of education on labor and geographic mobility. Mobility is an important equilibrating … any factor that inhibits mobility also impedes economic adjustments. Does the high level of education in modern industrial …-specific capital predicts that education increases job duration and therefore inhibits job mobility (Jovanovic, 1979). On the other …

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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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The Transition from School to Work : The Experiences of Blacks and Whites

Meyer, Robert H. - 1982

Because much of the concern about youth unemployment is motivated by the large differences between the rates for blacks and whites, we have pursued our earlier work by analyzing separately for black and white youth the relationship between high school preparation and early labor force...

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Healthiness, Education, and Marital Status

Taubman, Paul J. - 1980

education and marital status though the marital effects are much weaker when we condition for prior health. These effects …

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Education and Self-Selection

Willis, Robert J. - 1978

A structural model of the demand for college attendance is derived from the theory of comparative advantage and recent statistical models of self-selection and unobserved components. Estimates from NBER-Thorndike data strongly support the theory. First, expected lifetime earnings gains influence...

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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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Education : Consumption or Production

Lazear, Edward P. - 1975

It can be claimed that education is simply a normal consumption good and that like all other normal goods, an increase …

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Education and Screening

Wolpin, Kenneth - 1975

Section I introduces the material. In section II a model is developed which explores the impact of input-quality uncertainty on factor demand from which is derived a rationale for the use of devices which segment the population into classes differing in their "skill" distribution parameters. The...

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Education, Information, and Efficiency

Welch, Finis - 1973

between education and allocative efficiency. Section I is reprinted from my J.P.E. paper "Education in Production". Section II …

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