How responsive is investment in schooling to changes in redistributive policies and in returns?

Econometrica

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1241-1272

  Abramitzky, Ran ^a,b   Lavy, Victor ^b,c,d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Pay reform; Redistributive policies; Return to education; Schooling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904541738     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/ECTA10763     Document Type: Article

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