Features of Educational Attainment and Job Promotion Prospects

Parental Job Loss, Parental Ability and Children’s Educational Attainment

The recent recession has focused attention on the effects of job loss and unemployment, but job loss is a common experience even during times of economic expansion. While much is known about the impact of job loss on the earnings, income, and unemployment of adults, less is understood regarding the relationship between parental displacement and children’s outcomes. I estimate the effect of pare...

Obesity and Educational Attainment

This research estimates the influence of adolescent weight status on levels of educational attainment. Prior studies have found a causal role of obesity in other economic outcomes such as income. Given the crucial role of human capital investments for economic success, estimates of the causal influence of weight problems on education accumulation are provided. Models ignoring the potential endo...

Stuttering severity and educational attainment.

PURPOSE This study investigated the relationship between self-reported stuttering severity ratings and educational attainment. METHOD Participants were 147 adults seeking treatment for stuttering. At pretreatment assessment, each participant reported the highest educational level they had attained and rated their typical and worst stuttering severity on a 9-point scale for a range of speaking...

A Dynamic Analysis of Educational Attainment, Occupational Choices, and Job Search

This paper examines career choices using a dynamic structural model that nests a job search model within a human capital model of occupational and educational choices. Wage growth occurs in the model because workers move between …rms and occupations as they search for suitable job matches and because workers endogenously accumulate …rm and occupation speci…c human capital. Simulations performed...

Cultural Capital and Educational Attainment