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So You Want to Earn a Ph.D. in Economics: How Long Do You Think it Will Take?
(Vanderbilt University, 2000)
The elapsed time taken to earn a Ph.D. in economics is analyzed with data from 618 1996-97 Ph.D.s. A duration model indicates that students supported by fellowships, and those holding a prior masters degree finish faster. ...
Financing Education Using Optimal Redistributive Taxation
(Vanderbilt University, 2000)
In this article, the joint use of an income tax and public provision of education as instruments to achieve the government's distributional objectives are considered. Individuals differ in innate labour productivity and ...
Inequality in Child Academic Achievement in Single Parent Households: Evidence from Brazil
(Vanderbilt University, 2004)
In this paper we compare the intra-household dispersion of children's education achievement in single female-parent households with two-parent households. We find significantly more dispersion across children in households' ...
More Power to the Pill:The Impact of Contraceptive Freedom on Women's Life Cycle Labor Supply
(Vanderbilt University, 2004)
The release of Enovid in 1960, the first birth control pill, afforded U.S. women unprecedented freedom to plan childbearing and their careers. This paper uses plausibly exogenous variation in state consent laws to evaluate ...
Investing in Health: The Long-Term Impact of Head Start
(Vanderbilt University, 2004)
Head Start is a comprehensive, early childhood development program designed to augment the human capital and health capital levels of disadvantaged children. Grossman's (1972) health capital model suggests that early ...
Ranking Investment Projects
(Vanderbilt University, 2001)
This paper describes conditions under which one investment project dominates a second project in terms of net present value, irrespective of the choice of the discount rate. The resulting partial ordering of projects has ...
Part-Year Operation in Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing: Evidence from the 1870 and 1880 Censuses
(Vanderbilt University, 2001)
Using unpublished data contained in samples from the manuscripts of the 1870 and 1880 censuses of manufactures, we examine the extent and correlates of part-year manufacturing during the late nineteenth century. These data ...
Identification and Estimation with Contaminated Data: When Does Covariate Data Sharpen Inference?
(Vanderbilt University, 2001)
When data contain errors, parameters of interest typically are not identified without imposing strong assumptions. However, in many cases, bounds on these parameters can be constructed under relatively weak assumptions. ...
The Labor Market Impact of State-Level Fair Employment Laws, 1940-1960
(Vanderbilt University, 2001)
By the time Congress passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, 98 percent of non-southern blacks (40 percent of all blacks) were already covered by state-level "fair employment" laws which prohibited labor market discrimination. ...
The Sensitivity of Capital Use to Price in Higher Education
(Vanderbilt University, 2004)
We test whether U.S. colleges and universities adjust their physical capital intensity to differences in factor prices by regressing the square feet of space per student on construction prices across institutions. The ...