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How Universal School Vouchers Affect Educational And
How Universal School Vouchers Affect Educational and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Chile David Bravo Sankar Mukhopadhyay Petra E. Todd1 1David Bravo is Professor of Economics at the University of Chile and Director of the Microdata Center. Sankar Mukhodpadhyay is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Nevada. Petra Todd is Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. A preliminary version of this paper was presented at a conference in Amsterdam in May, 2008 and at the annual meeting of the Society of Chilean economists in September, 2008. We thank Jere R. Behrman, Sergio Urzua, and Kenneth I. Wolpin for helpful discussions. We are grateful for research support from a grant from the Spencer Foundation. We also acknowledge the support in the form of a pilot grant from the National Institutes of Health - National Institute on Aging, Grant number P30 AG12836, the Boettner Center for Pensions and Retirement Security at the University of Pennsylvania, and National Institutes of Health - National Institute of Child Health and Development Population Research Infrastructure Program R24 HD-044964, all at the University of Pennsylvania. Abstract This paper studies the effects of school vouchers in Chile, which adopted a nationwide school voucher program 28 years ago. Chile has a relatively unregulated, decentralized, competitive market in primary and secondary education and therefore provides a unique setting in which to study how voucher programs affect school choice as well as educational attainment and labor market outcomes. This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model of schooling and work decisions using data from the 2002 Historia Laboral y Seguridad Social and the 2004 Enquesta Proteccion Social (EPS) surveys. -
Micro Foundations of Earnings Differences
DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES IZA DP No. 10922 Micro Foundations of Earnings Differences Tirthatanmoy Das Solomon W. Polachek JULY 2017 DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES IZA DP No. 10922 Micro Foundations of Earnings Differences Tirthatanmoy Das Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and IZA Solomon W. Polachek State University of New York at Binghamton and IZA JULY 2017 Any opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author(s) and not those of IZA. Research published in this series may include views on policy, but IZA takes no institutional policy positions. The IZA research network is committed to the IZA Guiding Principles of Research Integrity. The IZA Institute of Labor Economics is an independent economic research institute that conducts research in labor economics and offers evidence-based policy advice on labor market issues. Supported by the Deutsche Post Foundation, IZA runs the world’s largest network of economists, whose research aims to provide answers to the global labor market challenges of our time. Our key objective is to build bridges between academic research, policymakers and society. IZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. IZA – Institute of Labor Economics Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5–9 Phone: +49-228-3894-0 53113 Bonn, Germany Email: [email protected] www.iza.org IZA DP No. 10922 JULY 2017 ABSTRACT Micro Foundations of Earnings Differences This paper examines how human capital based approaches explain the distribution of earnings. It assesses traditional, quasi-experimental, and new micro-based structural models, the latter of which gets at population heterogeneity by estimating individual- specific earnings function parameters. -
Behrman 2011
Do Conditional Cash Transfers for Schooling Generate Lasting Benefits? A Five-Year Followup of PROGRESA/Oportunidades Jere R. Behrman Susan W. Parker Petra E. Todd ABSTRACT Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs link public transfers to human capital investment in hopes of alleviating current poverty and reducing its intergenerational transmission. However, little is known about their long- term impacts. This paper evaluates longer-run impacts on schooling and work of the best-known CCT program, Mexico’s PROGRESA/Oportunida- des, using experimental and nonexperimental estimators based on groups with different program exposure. The results show positive impacts on schooling, reductions in work for younger youth (consistent with postpon- ing labor force entry), increases in work for older girls, and shifts from agricultural to nonagricultural employment. The evidence suggests school- ing effects are robust with time. Jere R. Behrman is the W. R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Economics and Sociology and PSC research associ- ate at the University of Pennsylvania. Susan W. Parker is a professor/researcher in the Division of Eco- nomics at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) in Mexico City. Petra E. Todd is professor of economics and a research associate of PSC at the University of Pennsylvania, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). This work received support from the Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica (INSP) and the Mellon Foundation/Population Studies Center (PSC)/University of Pennsylvania grant to Todd (P.I.) on “Long-term Impact Evaluation of the Oportunidades Program in Rural Mexico.” The authors thank three anonymous referees, Bernardo Herna´ndez, Iliana Yaschine and seminar participants at the University of Pennsylvania, the World Bank, and the University of Goettingen for helpful comments on early versions of this paper. -
Gary Becker's Early Work on Human Capital: Collaborations and Distinctiveness
A Service of Leibniz-Informationszentrum econstor Wirtschaft Leibniz Information Centre Make Your Publications Visible. zbw for Economics Teixeira, Pedro Article Gary Becker's early work on human capital: Collaborations and distinctiveness IZA Journal of Labor Economics Provided in Cooperation with: IZA – Institute of Labor Economics Suggested Citation: Teixeira, Pedro (2014) : Gary Becker's early work on human capital: Collaborations and distinctiveness, IZA Journal of Labor Economics, ISSN 2193-8997, Springer, Heidelberg, Vol. 3, pp. 1-20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40172-014-0012-2 This Version is available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/152338 Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen: Terms of use: Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Documents in EconStor may be saved and copied for your Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden. personal and scholarly purposes. Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle You are not to copy documents for public or commercial Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich purposes, to exhibit the documents publicly, to make them machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen. publicly available on the internet, or to distribute or otherwise use the documents in public. Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, If the documents have been made available under an Open gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort Content Licence -
Human Capital: a Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education, Second Edition
This PDF is a selection from an out-of-print volume from the National Bureau of Economic Research Volume Title: Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education, Second Edition Volume Author/Editor: Gary S. Becker Volume Publisher: NBER Volume ISBN: 0-226-04109-3 Volume URL: http://www.nber.org/books/beck75-1 Publication Date: 1975 Chapter Title: Front matter, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education Chapter Author: Gary S. Becker Chapter URL: http://www.nber.org/chapters/c3730 Chapter pages in book: (p. -22 - 0) HUMAN CAPITAL A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education National Bureau of Economic Research Human Behavior and Social Institutions 1. Essays in the Economics of Health and Medical Care, Victor R. Fuchs, Editor 2. Schooling, Experience, and Earnings, by Jacob Mincer 3. Essays in the Economics of Crime and Punishment, Gary S. Becker and William M. Landes, Editors 4. Income Inequality: Regional Analyses within a Human Capital Framework, by Barry R. Chiswick 5. Human Capital, 2nd Edition, by Gary S. Becker (For 1st Edition, see General Series No. 80) Human Capital A THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO EDUCATION SECOND EDITION BY GARY S. BECKER University of Chicago PUBLISHED BY NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH NEW YORK Distributed by Columbia University Press New York and London 1975 Copyright © 1975 by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. All Rights Reserved Library of Congress card no. 64—7748 (1st edition) 74-83469 (2nd edition) ISBN: 0—87014—513—4 Printed in the United States of America 2051090 Becker, Gary Stanley. -
Human Capital
Human Capital Claudia Goldin Contents Human Capital and History ...................................................................... 56 What Is Human Capital? ..................................................................... 56 Why the Study of Human Capital Is Inherently Historical .................................. 57 Human Capital and Economic Growth .......................................................... 59 Human Capital and Economic Performance in the Long Run: Escaping Malthus ......... 59 Human Capital, Institutions, and Economic Growth ........................................ 62 Producing Human Capital: Education and Training ............................................ 64 The Rise of Formal Education and the Role of the State . ... ............................... 64 Formal Schooling in Europe and America ................................................... 64 Why Invest in Education or Training? ....................................................... 70 Role of the State in Education ................................................................ 71 Why Education Levels Increased ............................................................ 73 Race Between Education and Technology ................................................... 76 Human Capital and Education: Concluding Remarks ....................................... 77 Producing Human Capital: Health ............................................................... 78 Health Human Capital and Income .......................................................... 78 Measures -
Michael Greenstone
MICHAEL GREENSTONE CONTACT INFORMATION Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Economics 50 Memorial Drive, E52-359 Cambridge, MA 02142-1347 Tel: (617) 452-4127 Fax: (617) 253-1330 Email: [email protected] PERSONAL Marital Status: Married to Katherine Ozment Children: William Pryor Greenstone, Jessica Joan Greenstone and Anne Ozment Greenstone Citizenship: US EDUCATION Ph.D., Economics, Princeton University, 1998 B.A. with High Honors, Economics, Swarthmore College, June 1991 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2006 – 3M Professor of Environmental Economics, MIT 2006 – 2007 Visiting Professor, University of California Energy Institute and University of California, Berkeley, (Economics Department and Center for Labor Economics) 2005 – 2006 Visiting Professor at University of California, Berkeley (Center for Labor Economics) and Stanford (Department of Economics) 2003 – 2006 3M Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure), MIT 2000 – 2003 Assistant Professor of Economics University of Chicago 1998 – 2000 Robert Wood Johnson Scholar, University of California-Berkeley AFFILIATIONS and NONACADEMIC POSITIONS 2010 – present Director, The Hamilton Project 2010 – present Co-Director, Climate Change, Environment and Natural Resources Research Programme, International Growth Centre 2010 – present Senior Fellow (Economic Studies), Brookings Institution 2010 – present Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research 2009 – 2010 Chief Economist, Council of Economic Advisers 2008 – present Energy Council, MIT Energy Initiative -
Economics 673 Econometrics of Program Evaluation Geert Ridder John Strauss KAP 310A KAP 318A [email protected] [email protected]
Economics 673 Econometrics of Program Evaluation Geert Ridder John Strauss KAP 310A KAP 318A [email protected] [email protected] 740-3511 740-7698 Office hours: Thu 11-12 Mo 11-1 This course is designed to provide econometric theory and applications on the subject of program evaluation. We will explore the following topics in this course: Social Experiments Difference in difference estimators Matching and unconfounded assignment Regression discontinuity design Instrumental variables and local average treatment effects (LATE) Program evaluation and economic theory Organization There are weekly lectures. The grade will be based on a take home exam in the middle of the course and a paper. There are three options for the paper: (i) it can be based on research that you are involved in, (ii) it can be an exploration of an econometric method discussed in this class, e.g. a small simulation study, or (iii) it can be a critical evaluation of a (small) number of papers on a particular topic covered in the course. We encourage you to decide soon which option you will pursue so that we can give some guidance. Blackboard Some of the lecture notes will be made available on blackboard. Reading List General: Imbens, Guido and Jeffrey Wooldridge. 2009. “Recent developments in the econometrics of program evaluation”, Journal of Economic Literature, 47(1):5-86. Deaton, Angus. 2010. Instruments, randomization and learning about development, Journal of Economic Literature, 48(2):424-455. Heckman, James J. 2010. Building bridges between structural and program evaluation approaches to evaluating policy, Journal of Economic Literature, 48(2):356-398. -
Mincer's Overtaking Point on the Lifecycle Earnings Distribution
A Service of Leibniz-Informationszentrum econstor Wirtschaft Leibniz Information Centre Make Your Publications Visible. zbw for Economics Polachek, Solomon W. Working Paper Mincer's Overtaking Point on the Lifecycle Earnings Distribution LIS Working Paper Series, No. 310 Provided in Cooperation with: Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Suggested Citation: Polachek, Solomon W. (2002) : Mincer's Overtaking Point on the Lifecycle Earnings Distribution, LIS Working Paper Series, No. 310, Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), Luxembourg This Version is available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/160982 Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen: Terms of use: Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Documents in EconStor may be saved and copied for your Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden. personal and scholarly purposes. Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle You are not to copy documents for public or commercial Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich purposes, to exhibit the documents publicly, to make them machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen. publicly available on the internet, or to distribute or otherwise use the documents in public. Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, If the documents have been made available under an Open gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort Content Licence (especially Creative Commons Licences), you genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. may exercise further usage rights as specified in the indicated licence. www.econstor.eu Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper Series Working Paper No. 310 Mincer's Overtaking Point and the Lifecycle Earnings Distribution Solomon Polachek July 2002 Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), asbl Mincer's Overtaking Point and the Lifecycle Earnings Distribution1 Solomon W. -
Returns to Investment in Education
WPS8402 Policy Research Working Paper 8402 Public Disclosure Authorized Returns to Investment in Education A Decennial Review of the Global Literature Public Disclosure Authorized George Psacharopoulos Harry Antony Patrinos Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Education Global Practice April 2018 Policy Research Working Paper 8402 Abstract Returns to investment in education based on human higher education have increased over time, raising issues capital theory have been estimated systematically since of financing and equity. Social returns to schooling remain the 1950s. In the 60-plus year history of such estimates, high, above 10 percent at the secondary and higher educa- there have been several compilations in the literature. This tion levels. Women continue to experience higher average paper reviews and highlights the latest trends and patterns rates of return to schooling, showing that girls’ education based on a database of 1,120 estimates in 139 countries. remains a priority. Returns are higher in low-income The review shows that the private average global rate of countries. Those employed in the private sector of the return to one extra year of schooling is about 9 percent economy enjoy higher returns than those in the public a year and very stable over decades. Private returns to sector, lending support to the productive value of education. This paper is a product of the Education Global Practice. It is part of a larger effort by the World Bank to provide open access to its research and make a contribution to development policy discussions around the world. Policy Research Working Papers are also posted on the Web at http://econ.worldbank.org. -
SILVIA HELENA BARCELLOS [email protected]
SILVIA HELENA BARCELLOS [email protected] EMPLOYMENT and POSITIONS Economist 2013-Present Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR) University of Southern California (USC) International Research Associate, Institute for Fiscal Studies 2016-2017 Visiting Scholar, Dept. Economics, University College London 2016-2017 RCMAR Scholar, USC Minority Aging Health Economics Research Center 2012-2014 Professor of Economics, Pardee RAND Graduate School 2012-2014 Associate Economist 2009-2013 RAND Corporation, Santa Monica Office EDUCATION Princeton University, Ph.D. in Economics, 2010 Princeton University, M.A. in Economics, 2006 Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio, Brazil), M.A in Economics, 2004 Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio, Brazil), B.A. in Economics, 2002 University of California, Berkeley, Visiting Student, 2000-2001 FIELDS OF INTEREST Health Economics, Labor Economics, Development Economics HONORS AND AWARDS National Institute on Aging Career Development Award (K Award), 2016-2021. Albert Rees Prize for the Most Outstanding Dissertation in Labor Economics from Princeton University in Previous Six Years, 2015. Fellowship of Woodrow Wilson Scholars (Princeton University), Graduate Fellow, 2007-2009. Princeton University Graduate School Fellowship, 2004-2007. Industrial Relations Graduate Summer Research Fellowship, 2005-2006. Prize Fellowship from the Research Foundation of Rio de Janeiro State (FAPERJ), 2003-2004. Brazilian Ministry of Education Fellowship (CAPES), 2002-2003. Brazilian National Research Council Scholarship (PIBIC program, CNPq), 1998-1999. PUBLICATIONS “Knowledge as Predictor of Insurance Coverage under the Affordable Care Act.” Join with Maximiliane Hoerl, Amelie Wuppermann, Katherine Grace Carman, Sebastian Bauhoff, and Joachim Winter. Medical Care 2017, 55(4): 428-435. Silvia H. -
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.: An Inventory of Its Records at the Harry Ransom Center Descriptive Summary Creator: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Title: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Records Dates: 1873-1996 (bulk 1945-1980) Extent: 1526 boxes, plus art work, film, galleys, realia, and video (635.8 linear feet) Arrangement Due to size, this inventory has been divided into 20 separate units that can be accessed by clicking on the highlighted text below: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Records--Series Descriptions and Series I., Boxes 1-41.10 [Part I] Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Records--Series I (continued), Boxes 41.11-141 [Part II] Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Records--Series I (continued), Boxes 142-247.10 [Part III] Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Records--Series I (continued), Boxes 247.11-400 [Part IV] Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Records--Series I (continued), Boxes 400-500 [Part V] Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Records--Series II., Boxes 501-685.2 [Part VI] Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Records--Series III. - Series V. Subseries E., Boxes 685.3-839.3 [Part VII] Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Records--Series V. Subseries F. - Series VI. Subseries B., Boxes 839.4-957.3 [Part VIII] Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Records--Series VI. Subseries C. - Subseries F., Boxes 957.4-1172.10 [Part IX] Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Records--Series VII. Subseries A. Sub-subseries 1., Boxes 1173.1-1247.5 [Part X] Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Records--Series VII. Subseries A. Sub-subseries 1. (continued) - Sub-subseries 2., Boxes 1247.6-1374.1 [Part XI] Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Records--Series VII.