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Returns To Schooling: A Quantile Regression, Arman Oganisian

Economics Student Scholarship

This paper contributes to the large body of economic literature that attempts to estimate the returns to schooling. It uses quantile regression to estimate the effect of an additional year of education on monthly wage for earners in different quantiles. Using data from the young men’s cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey, the paper attempts to control for ability, family background, geography, and race, and finds that the returns to schooling is approximately 3.49% for men. Furthermore, the paper finds that while the effect of education on earnings is not significantly different from quantile to quantile, the significance of education …

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index — December 2012, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index — November 2012, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index — October 2012, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Schools Of Thought And Economists' Opinions On Economic Policy, Luca De Benedictis, Michele Di Maio

Luca De Benedictis

In this paper we bring to data the hypothesis that economists' opinions are related to the schools of thought they declare to belong to. Two are the main results of our analysis, based on a novel dataset on Italian economists' opinions. The first one is that, on average, differences in the School of Thought predict differences in economists' opinions on a large set of normative questions on economic policy, even controlling for individual and other group or community characteristics, spatial and knowledge heterogeneity, and political orientation. Second, the way of grouping together different schools of thought is crucial as far …

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index — September 2012, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index — August 2012, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index — July 2012, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index — June 2012, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index — May 2012, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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The Politics Of Economics: A Study On The Effect Of Political Affiliation On Economic Aptitude, Anthony Nader

Honors Projects in Economics

This research is based on a June 2010 Wall Street Journal article outlining a study conducted on the economic literacy of adults versus their political affiliation (Klein, 2010). Adults were surveyed on eight questions regarding simple economic knowledge and then asked their political affiliation. The study found that people who consider themselves very conservative on average answered 1.3 questions wrong, versus an average of 5.26 questions wrong for people who consider themselves very liberal. This same effect was to be measured in the classroom as to whether or not conservatives tended to fare better in economics classes than liberals. The …

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index — April 2012, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Gender Discrimination Across U.S. States: What Has Changed Over The Past Thirty Years?, Joshua Ballance

Honors Projects in Economics

This study examines changes in the gender wage gap and level of gender discrimination in the United States over the period1980-2010 at the national and state levels. Using data from the U.S. Current Population Survey, this study applies the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition to separate the explained and unexplained variations in the gender pay gap. The unexplained variation proxies the level of gender discrimination faced by U.S. workers. The wage equation estimated utilizes the Heckman methodology to control for sample selection bias. Results with and without sample selectivity controls are included in this paper.

This study reports the gender pay gap in …

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index — March 2012, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Library Impact Statement For Eec 3xx Economics Of Climate Change, Andree J. Rathemacher

Library Impact Statements

Library Impact Statement for EEC3XX Economics of Climate Change new course proposal. No new library resources are needed to support this course. Responding library faculty member: Andree J. Rathemacher. Requesting faculty member: Corey Lang

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index — February 2012, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

No abstract provided.

Are Mainstream And Heterodox Economists Different? An Empirical Analysis, Michele Di Maio

Michele Di Maio

We explore the differences between Mainstream and Heterodox economists based on the responses to a questionnaire from a representative sample of Italian economists. Using different definitions for Mainstream and Heterodox economics, we compare the individual and academic characteristics of the economists belonging to these groups. We measure the within and between disagreement for each group and we test whether belonging to one or the other group predicts differences in economists’ opinions on economic policy. Results show that: 1) Mainstream and Heterodox economists differ as for individual and academic characteristics and political views; 2) the disagreement within Heterodox economics is lower …

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index — January 2012, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

No abstract provided.

Nine Out Of Ten. The "Losers" In Italy's Long Crisis. Changes In Income Distribution, Effects Of Policies, Rise In Inequality, Mario Pianta

Mario Pianta