Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings?
- J. Angrist, A. Krueger
- Education, Economics
- 1 December 1990
We establish that season of birth is related to educational attainment because of school start age policy and compulsory school attendance laws. Individuals born in the beginning of the year start…
Computing Inequality: Have Computers Changed the Labor Market?
- David Autor, L. Katz, A. Krueger
- Economics
- 1 March 1997
This paper examines the effect of technological change and other factors on the relative demand for workers with different education levels and on the recent growth of U.S. educational wage…
Experimental Estimates of Education Production Functions
- A. Krueger
- Education
- 1 June 1997
This paper analyzes data from Project STAR, an experiment in which 11,600 Tennessee kindergarten students and teachers were randomly assigned to one of three types of classes beginning in the 1985-86…
Empirical Strategies in Labor Economics
- J. Angrist, A. Krueger
- Economics
- 1 June 1998
Instrumental Variables and the Search for Identification: From Supply and Demand to Natural Experiments
- J. Angrist, A. Krueger
- Economics
- 1 August 2001
The method of instrumental variables was first used in the 1920s to estimate supply and demand elasticities, and later used to correct for measurement error in single-equation models. Recently,…
Does School Quality Matter? Returns to Education and the Characteristics of Public Schools in the United States
- David Card, A. Krueger
- EducationJournal of Political Economy
- 1 May 1990
This paper estimates the effects of school quality--measured by the pupil/teacher ratio, average term length, and relative teacher pay--on the rate of return to education for men born between 1920…
How Computers Have Changed the Wage Structure: Evidence from Microdata, 1984-1989
- A. Krueger
- Economics
- 1 October 1991
This paper examines whether employees who use a computer at work earn a higher wage rate than otherwise similar workers who do not use a computer at work. The analysis primarily relies on data from…
Estimates of the Economic Return to Schooling from a New Sample of Twins
- O. Ashenfelter, A. Krueger
- Economics, Education
- 1 August 1992
This paper uses a new survey to contrast the wages of genetically identical twins with different schooling levels. Multiple measurements of schooling levels were also collected to assess the effect…
The Effect of Age at School Entry on Educational Attainment: An Application of Instrumental Variables with Moments from Two Samples
- J. Angrist, A. Krueger
- Education
- 1 December 1990
This paper tests the hypothesis that compulsory school attendance laws, which typically require school attendance until a specified birthday, induce a relationship between the years of schooling and…
Estimating the Payoff to Attending a More Selective College: an Application of Selection on Observables and Unobservables
- S. Dale, A. Krueger
- Education
- 1 August 1999
There are many estimates of the effect of college quality on students' subsequent earnings. One difficulty interpreting past estimates, however, is that elite colleges admit students, in part, based…
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