This paper analyzes changes in the distribution of college enrollment rates that occurred between 1980 and 2000. It aims not only to explain the 69% increase in the overall college enrollment, but also changes in the profile of college students in terms of their ability and financial status. College attendance increased by 27% less than average among individuals in the lowest quartile of the joint family income and ability distribution. However, it increased by 12% more than average for individuals in the highest quartile of the distribution. The increase in college enrollment was far from uniform and, to explain these changes, I construct a life-cycle heterogeneous agents model of labor supply and human capital formation. The model is cali...
This article proposes and empirically implements a structural model of educa-tion choices and wage d...
[Excerpt] This paper analyzes the response of female college attendance and completion rates to chan...
This paper tests the existence of causal relationship between the evolution of college-educated labo...
This paper analyzes changes in the distribution of college enrollment rates that occurred between 19...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Dept. of Economics, 2010.I analyze two issues on the effic...
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. June 2016. Major: Economics. Advisor: Fatih Guvenen. 1 c...
In this paper, I analyze the determinants of college enrolment and the changes in these determinants...
Industrial realignment in the United States, in part stemming from liberalized international trade, ...
We develop a macroeconomic framework to estimate the importance of fluctuations in relative ability ...
This dissertation consists of three chapters, each of which considers a different question in the ec...
To increase college access and reduce the burden of student loan debt, the US government has develop...
To increase college access and reduce the burden of student loan debt, the US government has develop...
consists of two chapters. The first chapter investigates the causes of the recent slowdown in colleg...
I quantify the effects of alternative student loan policies on college enrollment, bor- rowing behav...
The future of higher education enrollment in the Unied States is clouded. Until recently college enr...
This article proposes and empirically implements a structural model of educa-tion choices and wage d...
[Excerpt] This paper analyzes the response of female college attendance and completion rates to chan...
This paper tests the existence of causal relationship between the evolution of college-educated labo...
This paper analyzes changes in the distribution of college enrollment rates that occurred between 19...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Dept. of Economics, 2010.I analyze two issues on the effic...
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. June 2016. Major: Economics. Advisor: Fatih Guvenen. 1 c...
In this paper, I analyze the determinants of college enrolment and the changes in these determinants...
Industrial realignment in the United States, in part stemming from liberalized international trade, ...
We develop a macroeconomic framework to estimate the importance of fluctuations in relative ability ...
This dissertation consists of three chapters, each of which considers a different question in the ec...
To increase college access and reduce the burden of student loan debt, the US government has develop...
To increase college access and reduce the burden of student loan debt, the US government has develop...
consists of two chapters. The first chapter investigates the causes of the recent slowdown in colleg...
I quantify the effects of alternative student loan policies on college enrollment, bor- rowing behav...
The future of higher education enrollment in the Unied States is clouded. Until recently college enr...
This article proposes and empirically implements a structural model of educa-tion choices and wage d...
[Excerpt] This paper analyzes the response of female college attendance and completion rates to chan...
This paper tests the existence of causal relationship between the evolution of college-educated labo...