Sunday, 30 April 2017

Notes on sheepskin effects

Amin, V. (2011). Returns to Education: Evidence from UK Twins: Comment. The American Economic Review, 101(4), 1629-1635.
Belman, D., & Heywood, J. (1991). Sheepskin effects in the returns to education - an examination of women and minorities. The review of economics and statistics, lxxiii(4), 720-720.
Bilkic, N., Bilkic, N., Gries, T., & Pilichowski, M. (2012). Stay in school or start working? — The human capital investment decision under uncertainty and irreversibility. Labour Economics, 19(5), 706-717.
Carneiro, P., Heckman, J., & Vytlacil, E. (2011). Estimating Marginal Returns to Education. The American Economic Review, 101(6), 2754-2781.
Crespo, A., & Reis, M. (2009). Sheepskin effects and the relationship between earnings and education: analyzing their evolution over time in Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Economia, 63(3), 209-232.
Frazis, H. (2002). Human capital, signaling, and the pattern of returns to education. Oxford Economic Papers, 54(2), 298-320.
Harmon, C., Oosterbeek, H., & Walker, I. (2003). The Returns to Education: Microeconomics. Journal of economic surveys, 17(2), 115-156.
Huntington Klein, N. (2015). Subjective and projected returns to education. Journal of economic behavior & organization, 117, 10-25.
Istvan, K. (2014). THE SHEEPSKIN EFFECT IN THE HUNGARIAN LABOUR MARKET 2010-2012: ANALYSIS OF DATA FROM THE HUNGARIAN GRADUATE TRACKING SYSTEM. Analele Universităţii din Oradea. Ştiinţe economice, 23(1), 492-499.
Liu, S., Buka, S., Kubzansky, L., Kawachi, I., Gilman, S., & Loucks, E. (2013). Sheepskin effects of education in the 10-year Framingham risk of coronary heart diseas. Social science & medicine, 80, 31.
McGuinness, S. (2003). Graduate overeducation as a sheepskin effect: evidence from Northern Ireland. Applied economics, 35(5), 597-608.
Mincer, J. (1958). Investment in Human Capital and Personal Income Distribution. Journal of political economy, 66(4), 281-302.
Pons, E., & Blanco, J. (2005). Sheepskin Effects in the Spanish Labour Market: A Public–Private Sector Analysis. Education Economics, 13(3), 331-347.
Shabbir, T. (2013). Sheepskin Effects of Investment in Schooling: Do They Signal Family Background? Case of Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences, 7(1), 43-57.
Shabbir, T., & Ashraf, J. (2011). Interpreting Sheepskin Effects of Investment in Schooling. Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences, 5(2), 202-215.
Silles, M. (2008). Sheepskin effects in the returns to education. Applied economics letters, 15(3), 217-219.
Trostel, P., & Walker, I. (2004). Sheepskin effects in work behaviour. Applied economics, 36(17), 1959-1966.

Saturday, 22 April 2017

Notes on "Stay in school or start working? — The human capital investment decision under uncertainty and irreversibility" (Bilkic, N. ; Gries, T. ; Pilichowski, M.)

Stay in school or start working? — The human capital investment decision under uncertainty and irreversibility 
Bilkic, N. ; Gries, T. ; Pilichowski, M. 
Labour Economics, October 2012, Vol.19(5), pp.706-717 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Saturday, 15 April 2017

Notes on “Toward a cognitive game theory" (by Vlaev, I; Chater, N)

Toward a cognitive game theory 
Vlaev, I; Chater, N 
BEHAV BRAIN SCI , 26 (2) 178 - 179. (2003) 
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS 2003-04


Saturday, 8 April 2017

Notes on "Homo deus : a brief history of tomorrow“ (by Yuval N. Harari)

Homo deus : a brief history of tomorrow (Hisṭoryah shel ha-maḥar.English ) 
translated by the author. Yuval N. Harari, author. 
London : Harvill Secker  2016

Saturday, 1 April 2017

Notes on "Risk sharing in private information models with asset accumulation: explaining the excess smoothness of consumption" (by Attanasio, OP; Pavoni, N)

Risk sharing in private information models with asset accumulation: explaining the excess smoothness of consumption
Attanasio, OP; Pavoni, N 
Econometrica , 79 (4) 1027 - 1068. (2011) 
WILEY-BLACKWELL 2011-07


  • the relationship between consumption and income variability in a class of private information models with asset accumulation and uses this characterization to derive some of their empirical implications
  • The complete insurance hypothesis is soundly rejected by the data
  • (not finished)