Identifying and Estimating the Distributions of Ex Post and Ex Ante Returns to Schooling

By Flávio Cunha, James J. Heckman. 2007

122 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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In Accounting

1. Katja Kaufmann
2. E. Vytlacil
3. James J. Heckman
4. Eric A. Hanushek
5. Arthur Lewbel
6. Lance Lochner
7. Flávio Cunha
8. Pedro Carneiro

In Economics and Econometrics

1. James J. Heckman
2. Katja Kaufmann
3. E. Vytlacil
4. Magne Mogstad
5. Pedro Carneiro
6. Matthew Wiswall
7. Flávio Cunha
8. Judea Pearl

In Sociology and Political Science

1. E. Vytlacil
2. Katja Kaufmann
3. James J. Heckman
4. Flávio Cunha
5. Peter Z. Schochet
6. Pedro Carneiro
7. Lance Lochner
8. Sergio S. Urzúa

Citations in the corpus

• MODELING EARNINGS DYNAMICS (2009, unknown): “Work by Blundell and Preston (1998), Blundell, Pistaferri, and Preston (2008), Cunha, Heckman, and Navarro (2005), Cunha and Heckman (2006), and Guvenen and Smith (2008) illustrate the latter approach.”
• Life-Cycle Earnings, Education Premiums, and Internal Rates of Return (2017, unknown): “2 In studies that aim to explain or forecast schooling choices, the distinction between ex ante and ex post returns to schooling is important (see, e.g., Altonji 1993; Cunha, Heckman, and Navarro 2005; Heckman et al. 2006; Cunha and Heckman 2007).”
• Optimal Taxation and Human Capital Policies over the Life Cycle (2014, unknown): “The structural branch of the literature (Cunha et al., 2006; Cunha and Heckman, 2007) emphasizes that human capital acquisition occurs throughout life, underscoring the need for a life cycle model. Both ex ante heterogeneity in the returns to human capital and uncertainty matter. A large body of emp”
• Understanding the Income Gradient in College Attendance in Mexico: The Role of Heterogeneity in Expected Returns (2014, methodology): “I then use the baseline distribution of P and the new distribution after the policy change of P ∗ to determine the relevant weights (see equation (17)) and determine a weighted average of MTE(u), which gives me the PRTE for this specific policy (see equation (16) and (17)).”
• Econometric Evaluation of Social Programs, Part II: Using the Marginal Treatment Effect to Organize Alternative Econometric Estimators to Evaluate Social Programs, and to Forecast their Effects in New Environments (2007, background): “Carneiro, Hansen and Heckman (2003), Cunha, Heckman and Navarro (2005, 2006) and Cunha and Heckman (2008, 2007) apply and develop these methods.”