Peer Effects and Social Networks in Education This paper studies whether structural properties of friendship networks affect individual outcomes in education. We first develop a model that shows that, at the Nash equilibrium, the outcome of each individual embedded in a network is proportional to her Katz-Bonacich centrality measure. This measure takes into account both direct and indirect frie...

A number of studies have shown that teenagers who abstain from sex are more likely to graduate from high school and attend college than their sexually active peers. However, it is unclear whether this association represents a causal relationship or can be explained by unmeasured heterogeneity. This study employs a variety of econometric techniques to distinguish between these hypotheses using d...

We introduce the set of bicomplex numbers T which is a commutative ring with zero divisors defined by T = {w0 + w1i1 + w2i2 + w3j| w0, w1, w2, w3 ∈ R} where i21 = −1, i22 = −1, j = 1, i1i2 = j = i2i1. We present the conjugates and the moduli associated with the bicomplex numbers. Then we study the bicomplex Schrödinger equation and found the continuity equations. The discrete symmetries of the ...

Does the Choice of Reference Levels of Education Matter in the ORU Earnings Equation? This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation/under-education (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference levels of education are measured using the Realized Matches or Worker Self-Assessment methods. The analyses are cond...

The failure or success of students at school can have important impacts on their future studies and labour market outcomes. Furthermore, school performance of the children of immigrants can inform on their adjustment or disadvantage (if any) in the country of destination. This paper examines the tertiary entrance scores of children with migrant parents (firstand second-generations Australians) ...

This paper examines the impact of women’s property inheritance rights on their educational attainment. Using exogenous variation created by femalefriendly state level reforms to the inheritance law in India, I find that educational attainment of women who were of primary school-going age at the time of reform increased by an average of 0.5 years in reforming relative to non-reforming states. Th...

The Effect of Extra Funding for Disadvantaged Pupils on Achievement This paper evaluates the effects of two subsidies targeted at disadvantaged pupils in the Netherlands. The first scheme gives primary schools with at least 70 percent minority pupils extra funding for personnel. The second scheme gives primary schools with at least 70 percent pupils from different disadvantaged groups extra fun...

To Draft or Not to Draft? Efficiency, Generational Incidence, and Political Economy of Military Conscription We study the efficiency and distributional consequences of establishing and abolishing the draft in a dynamic model with overlapping generations, taking into account endogenous human capital formation as well as government budget constraints. The introduction of the draft initially benef...

This paper estimates the monetary return to quality in U.S. graduate education, controlling for cognitive ability and self-selection across award level, program quality, and field-of-study. In most program types, I cannot reject the hypothesis of no returns to either degree completion or program quality. Important exceptions include master’s programs in health science, where completion substant...

We review the empirical literature that estimates the causal effect of parent’s schooling on child’s schooling, and conclude that estimates differ across studies. We then consider three explanations for why this is: (a) idiosyncratic differences in data sets; (b) differences in remaining biases between different identification strategies; and (c) differences across identification strategies in ...