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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Return to schooling"”.
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Labor Market Returns to School Quality in China
This dissertation carries out research dedicated to explore the impact of school quality on students' subsequent labor market earnings in China. Three distinctive datasets involving both urban and rural areas of China are used in the dissertation to investigate this issue: the Chinese General …
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Three Essays on *Education and Human Capital
The third chapter examines whether the return to schooling varies depending on the degree of relevance of one's field of education to their occupation. Using information on fields of education and occupations of over 6,000 individuals, I find that people who matched their field of education to an …
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Theoretical and Applied Essays on the Instrumental Variable Method
This dissertation is intended to provide a statistical foundation for the IV models and shed lights on a number of issues related to the IV method. The first chapter shows that the theoretical Instrumental Variable model can be derived by reparameterization of a well-specified statistical model …
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Some Recent Advances in Non- and Semiparametric Bayesian Modeling with Copulas, Mixtures, and Latent Variables
… contribution is an extension of the Gaussian factor model to Gaussian copula factor models, which accommodate continuous and ordinal data with unspecified marginal distributions. I describe how this model is the most natural extension of the Gaussian factor model, preserving its essential …
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Essays in applied microeconomics
… with poor handwriting. Chapter one is the first to estimate the grading bias and decompose it to uncover its sources. I find that the bias alters 1.9% of high school admission outcomes and contributes to 70% of the gender gap in 9th grade’s writing test. The challenge with identifying bias is …
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Impacts of Household Credit on the Poor in Peri-urban Areas of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Access to credit is universally believed to be an effective tool to help the poor out of poverty. Yet the evidence for this has not considered all settings, especially the peri-urban areas of rapidly industrialising Asian countries. In these areas human capital is the main asset of the poor, so it …