Beyond Signaling and Human Capital: Education and the Revelation of Ability

By P. Arcidiacono, Patrick J. Bayer, Aurel Hizmo. 2008

192 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/09c4116a14a8046bfbb39123fe20e66dbb4c84d4

Citations in the corpus

• Divergent Paths: A New Perspective on Earnings Differences between Black and White Men Since 1940 (2018, unknown): “11 Distinguishing the contributions of actual skill differences and labor market discrimination has been the focus of numerous studies (see, for example, Neal and Johnson (1996), Arcidiacono et al. (2010), Lang and Manove (2011), Black et al.”
• The economic case for education† (2016, unknown): “…to the innovator.14 On the other hand, the social returns to education may also be lower than the private returns if part of the private returns comes in the form of unproductive signaling or screening (Spence 1973, Stiglitz 1975, Weiss 1995, Riley 2001; Arcidiacono, Bayer, and Hizmo 2010).”
• A multidisciplinary survey on discrimination analysis (2013, unknown): “More recent works along this line include: Arcidiacono et al. (2010); Lang and Manove (2011), who correlate, through a median regression, the level of education across races with a worker’s ability,”
• Employer Learning, Productivity and the Earnings Distribution: Evidence from Performance Measures (2014, unknown): “14 From equations (3)-(5), it is easy to derive the covariances between pay and the performance measures observed in the data:”
• The Big Sort: College Reputation and Labor Market Outcomes (2017, unknown): “…returns are therefore informative about dimensions of college 28 If we estimate column (3) with Icfes scores normalized to mean zero and standard deviation one—as Arcidiacono et al. (2010) do with AFQT—the first-period coefficient on Icfes is approximately one half of their AFQT coefficient.”
• How Large are Returns to Schooling? Hint: Money Isn't Everything (2009, unknown): “Exogenous increases to schooling affect a person's relative ranking in terms of overall attainment, but this matters 20 For example, see Arcidiacono et al. (2008). only to employers or possibly potential spouses that statistically discriminate.”
• Priceless: The Nonpecuniary Benefits of Schooling (2011, unknown): “Our view of literature is that there is evidence of both (for example, Arcidiacono, Bayer, and Hizmo, 2008).”