Research: Human Capital¶
Current working papers¶
Selective College Admissions: Implications for Equity and Efficiency¶
With Oksana Leukhina and Tatyana Koreshkova. Paper coming soon. Slides
Accounting for the Evolution of U.S. Wage Inequality [soin]¶
2013-May-10. Bibtex citation
Publications¶
Skilled Labor Productivity and Cross-country Income Differences¶
With Todd Schoellman. (AEJ-Macro 2023)
College Quality and Attendance Patterns: A Long-run View¶
With Chris Herrington and Todd Schoellman | American Economic Journal - Macroeconomics, 2021. Bibtex entry
Human Capital and Development Accounting: New Evidence From Immigrant Earnings¶
With Todd Schoellman, QJE, 2018 | Bibtex entry
The Return to College: Selection and Dropout Risk¶
With Oksana Leukhina | 2018, International Economic Review | Online Appendix | Bibtex citation
How Risky Is College Investment?¶
With Oksana Leukhina | 2017, Review of Economic Dynamics | Bibtex citation
Student Abilities During the Expansion of U.S. Education [ability]¶
With Todd Schoellman. Journal of Monetary Economics, 36: 19-36, 2014.
Appendix.
Bibtex citation
Cross-country Variation in Educational Attainment: Structural Change or Within Industry Skill Upgrading? [hdind]¶
Journal of Economic Growth 15(3), 2010. Bibtex citation.
IPUMS Validation paper.
Mapping from country specific to detailed industries.
The Skill Composition of U.S. Cities [hc_cities]¶
International Economic Review 52(1): 1-32, 2011. Bibtex citation
Previous title: Educational attainment in U.S. cities.
Taxation and Human Capital Accumulation¶
Macroeconomic Dynamics 2004, 8(3)
Taxation and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital¶
Journal of Economics Dynamics and Control 2003, 27(9): 1639-1662.
How Important is Human Capital for Development? Evidence from Immigrant Earnings¶
American Economic Review 2002, 92(1): 198-219. Bibtex citation.
Technical Appendix. Data table with Mincer regressions and other source country data (MS Excel format).
How Do Taxes Affect Human Capital? The Role of Intergenerational Mobility [hctax]¶
Review of Economic Dynamics 2001, 4(3): 695-735.
Technical Appendix | Bibtex citation
Growth, Death, and Taxes [gdtax]¶
Review of Economic Dynamics 2001, 4(1): 26-57.
Taxation and Long-Run Growth¶
Journal of Monetary Economics, 1999, (43)2: 411-434.
Bibtex citation
The Technical Appendix contains details on computation and analytics.
Program files are available in the following zip files:
Older working papers¶
The Ben-Porath Model and Age-wage Profiles [ojttech]¶
2012-Nov-27. Bibtex citation
The Evolution of U.S. Wages: Skill Prices versus Human Capital¶
2012-Feb-23. Bibtex citation
Why Does Education Differ Across Countries? [scd_paper]¶
Paper (First draft: March 2005). Bibtex citation
Discussions¶
MisMatch in Human Capital Accumulation