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Hample, Kelsey |
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Intergenerational Transfer of Human Capital among Immigrant Families Undergraduate Economic Review 7,1 (2011): Article 6. Also: http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/uer/vol7/iss1/6 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Digital Commons@ Illinois Wesleyan University (DC@IWU) Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Human Capital; Immigrants; Income Level; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Undergraduate Research; Wage Gap Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. While immigrants in the United States tend to earn less than comparable natives, their children close the earnings gap. The purpose of this study is to determine how differences in intergenerational transfer of human capital between immigrant families and native families affect different earning outcomes for respondents of each group. Specifically, this study uses a human capital framework to analyze both the direct effect of parental education on respondent earnings and the indirect effect on earnings by first affecting respondent education, which in turn affects respondent earnings. Data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth allows background variables within a family from 1979 to be related to respondent earnings in 2006. Thus, human capital investments made by parents can be linked to respondent outcomes several years later. The analysis shows that while parental education is a strong predictor of respondent education and earnings in the native population, it is weaker for second generation immigrants. Perhaps second generation immigrants overcome deficiencies in their parents' human capital through higher levels of motivation. |
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Hample, Kelsey. "Intergenerational Transfer of Human Capital among Immigrant Families." Undergraduate Economic Review 7,1 (2011): Article 6.
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Kanarek, Jaret L. |
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Examining the AFQT as a Proxy for Human Capital Undergraduate Economic Review 11,1 (2015): . Also: http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1285&context=uer Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Digital Commons@ Illinois Wesleyan University (DC@IWU) Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Human Capital; Undergraduate Research Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. I examine whether the Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT) is a suitable proxy for human capital skills by testing the hypothesis that those factors most germane to human capital skills acquisition will most affect AFQT score. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of the Youth and OLS regression analysis, I find that strict and loose human capital factors are robust determinants of AFQT score, and thus the AFQT is a suitable proxy for human capital skills. However, its use as such requires specification that the AFQT is not a catchall for human capital factors, as it is significantly related to only some human capital factors considered in this study |
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Kanarek, Jaret L. "Examining the AFQT as a Proxy for Human Capital." Undergraduate Economic Review 11,1 (2015): .
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Nikolova, Viktoriya Bargar, Michael S. |
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Determinants of Self-Employment in the United States Undergraduate Economic Review 6,1 (2010): Article 2. Also: http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1078&context=uer Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Department of Economics, Illinois Wesleyan University Keyword(s): Economics of Gender; Entrepreneurship; Gender Differences; Modeling, Probit; Self-Employed Workers; Undergraduate Research Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The prominence entrepreneurs have occupied in the popular imagination belies their relative neglect in formal economic theory. This paper adds to the growing body of work on entrepreneurs by examining the characteristics of self-employed individuals in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997. We believe our article to be the first that uses this fresh body of data for this purpose. Employing the standard binomial probit model with a list of potentially significant variables drawn from existing literature, we discovered that women are significantly less likely to be self-employed than men. |
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Nikolova, Viktoriya and Michael S. Bargar. "Determinants of Self-Employment in the United States." Undergraduate Economic Review 6,1 (2010): Article 2.
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Oehrlein, Paul |
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Determining Future Success of College Students Undergraduate Economic Review 5,1 (2009): Article 7. Also: http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/uer/vol5/iss1/7 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Digital Commons@ Illinois Wesleyan University (DC@IWU) Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Educational Costs; Income Level; Modeling, OLS; Noncognitive Skills; Undergraduate Research Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Many people invest a lot of money in order to go to college with the hope that they will eventually be rewarded with higher salaries. This paper attempts to determine what aspects of college are most important in determining the future income of students. In particular, this paper studies whether GPA is an important determinant of income as well as whether some majors are better investments than others after controlling for other factors. In addition, the effect of math and verbal ability on income and how they interact with different fields of study are examined. The data comes from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth database and OLS regressions are used. The regression results show that grades, natural ability, and major all significantly affect income. |
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Oehrlein, Paul. "Determining Future Success of College Students." Undergraduate Economic Review 5,1 (2009): Article 7.
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