Research: Human Capital¶
Current working papers¶
Expanding Access to Selective Colleges¶
With Oksana Leukhina and Tatyana Koreshkova. Paper.
College Access and Intergenerational Mobility¶
With Oksana Leukhina and Tatyana Koreshkova. Paper.
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¶
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