F Lange, R Topel - Handbook of the Economics of Education, 2006 - Elsevier
We review and extend the empirical literature that seeks evidence of a wedge between the private and social returns to human capital, specifically education. This literature has two …
We estimate the effect of education on participation in criminal activity using changes in state compulsory schooling laws over time to account for the endogeneity of schooling decisions …
GJ Borjas - Journal of labor Economics, 1985 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper reexamines the empirical basis for two" facts" that seem to be found in most cross- section studies of immigrant earnings:(1) the earnings of immigrants grow rapidly as they …
A Lleras-Muney - The Review of economic studies, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Prior research has uncovered a large and positive correlation between education and health. This paper examines whether education has a causal impact on health. I follow …
TS Dee - Journal of public economics, 2004 - Elsevier
The hypothesized effects of educational attainment on adult civic engagement and attitudes provide some of the most important justifications for government intervention in the market …
Many economists and policymakers believe that education creates positive externalities. Indeed, average schooling in US states is highly correlated with state wage levels, even …
A Weiss - Journal of Economic perspectives, 1995 - aeaweb.org
The key difference between signalling and human capital models is that signalling models allow firms to draw inferences about unobserved characteristics of workers. Those …
JD Angrist, AB Krueger - Journal of the American statistical …, 1992 - Taylor & Francis
We present a model in which compulsory school attendance laws, which typically require school attendance until a specified birthday, induce a relationship between years of …
SD Bushway, R Apel - Criminology & public policy, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Acriminal history is an undeniably excellent predictor of future criminal behavior (Gendreau, Little, and Goggin, 1996). Yet despite stability in offending over time, most offenders, even …