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between education and allocative efficiency. Section I is reprinted from my J.P.E. paper quot;Education in Productionquot …
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We present results from the first study to examine the causal impact of early childhood education on social preferences … a series of incentivized experiments to elicit their social preferences. We find that early childhood education has a …
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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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data from Turkey and leveraging an education reform which increased mandatory schooling by three years, we find that the …
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use easily observable characteristics such as years of education to 'statistically discriminate' among workers. The pure … credential value of education will depend on how quickly firms learn. To obtain information on employer learning, we work with a … education. The time path of the coefficient on the unobservable productivity variable provides information about the rate at …
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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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This paper presents a survey and interpretation of recent research on the return to education. The empirical findings … in a series of current papers suggest that the causal effect of education on earnings is understated by standard …
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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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This paper examines the education literature through the lens of sorting. It argues that how individuals sort across …. It discusses the implications of different education finance systems for sorting and analyzes the efficiency and welfare …
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This paper presents a model of the intergenerational transmission of education and marital sorting where parents matter … impact in the UK than in the US as a result of the fertility and education transmission process. When the relative supply of …
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