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Walker, Ian ; Zhu, Yu (University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008-07-08)This paper reports estimates of the UK “college premium” for young graduates across successive cohorts from large cross section datasets for the UK pooled from 1994 to 2006 - a period when the higher education participation ...
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Walker, Ian ; Zhu, Yu (University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2007-06-12)This paper provides findings from the UK Labour Force Surveys from 1993 to 2003 on the financial private returns to a degree – the "college premium". The data covers a decade when the university participation rate doubled ...
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Farrell, Lisa ; Hartley, Roger ; Lanot, Gauthier ; Walker, Ian (American Statistical Association, 2000-04)This article presents estimates of the elasticity of demand for lottery tickets using time series data in which there is variation in the expected value of a lottery ticket induced by rollovers. An important feature of our ...
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Harmon, Colm ; Hogan, Vincent (Vincent Peter) ; Walker, Ian (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2001-08)In this paper we extend the standard human capital earnings function to include dispersion in the rate of return to schooling by treating the return as a random coefficient. One motivation is that if the increase in supply ...
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Harmon, Colm ; Hogan, Vincent (Vincent Peter) ; Walker, Ian (University College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2002-10-18)We extend the standard human capital earnings function to include dispersion in the return to schooling by treating the return as a random coefficient. If the rapid expansion in participation in higher education has been ...
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Harmon, Colm ; Walker, Ian ; Hogan, Vincent (Vincent Peter) (Elsevier Science, 2003)We extend the standard human capital earnings function to include dispersion in the return to schooling by treating the return as a random coefficient (RC). If the rapid expansion in participation in higher education has ...
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Walker, Ian ; Zhu, Yu (University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2007-06-12)The widely held view that separation has adverse effects on children has been the basis of important policy interventions. While a small number of analyses have been concerned with selection into divorce, no studies have ...
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Chevalier, Arnaud ; Harmon, Colm ; Walker, Ian ; Zhu, Yu (University College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2002-12-23)It is clear that education has an important effect on wages paid in the labour market However it not clear whether this is due to the role that education plays in raising the productivity of workers (the human capital ...
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Chevalier, Arnaud ; Harmon, Colm ; Walker, Ian ; Zhu, Yu (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2003-01)It is clear that education has an important effect on wages paid in the labour market However it not clear whether this is due to the role that education plays in raising the productivity of workers (the human capital ...
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Harmon, Colm ; Chevalier, Arnaud ; Walker, Ian ; Zhu, Yu (Blackwell, 2004-11)Education has an important effect on wages but it not clear whether this is because education raises productivity or because education is simply a signal of ability. We implement a number of existing tests for discriminating ...
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Hogan, Vincent (Vincent Peter) ; Walker, Ian (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2003-01)We analyse how progressive taxation and education subsidies affect schooling decisions when the returns to education are stochastic. We use the theory of real options to solve the problem of education choice in a dynamic, ...
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Hogan, Vincent (Vincent Peter) ; Walker, Ian (University College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2002-09-05)We analyse how progressive taxation and education subsidies affect schooling deci- sions when the returns to education are stochastic. We use the theory of real options to solve the problem of education choice in a dynamic, ...
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Hogan, Vincent (Vincent Peter) ; Walker, Ian (Elsevier, 2007)We analyse how progressive taxation and education subsidies affect schooling decisions when the returns to education are stochastic. We use the theory of real options to solve the problem of education choice in a dynamic ...
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Hogan, Vincent (Vincent Peter) ; Walker, Ian (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2006-11)We analyse how progressive taxation and education subsidies affect schooling decisions when the returns to education are stochastic. We use the theory of real options to solve the problem of education choice in a dynamic ...
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Bingley, Paul ; Jensen, Vibeke ; Walker, Ian (University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2007-06-08)This paper is concerned with the relationship between class size and the student outcome – length of time in post-compulsory schooling. Research on this topic has been problematic partly because omitted unobservables, like ...
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Harmon, Colm ; Walker, Ian (Institute for Financial Studies, 1995)This paper estimates the impact of schooling on the wages of men. It is important to know what the return on educational investments might be since a high return implies that there might be too little of such investments. ...
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Walker, Ian ; Harmon, Colm (American Economic Association, 1995-12)
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Doyle, Orla ; Harmon, Colm ; Walker, Ian (University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2007-02-01)This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental education and income on child health. We are particularly concerned about spurious correlation arising from the potential endogeneity ...
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Doyle, Orla ; Walker, Ian ; Harmon, Colm (Institute for the Study of Labor, 2005-11)This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental background on child health. We are particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are ...
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