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Author: Hadavand, Aboozar
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Almasi, Pooya Hadavand, Aboozar Thomas, Sarah Gharehgozli, Orkideh |
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Relevance of Education to Occupation: A New Empirical Approach Based on College Courses Education Economics 28,4 (2020): 370-383. Also: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09645292.2020.1749233 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group Keyword(s): College Major/Field of Study/Courses; Educational Returns; Occupations; Wages Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. We introduce a new approach to measuring the match between education and occupation by using the number of college courses related to one's occupation. Previous studies have only considered the match between college 'major' and occupation. That approach ignores the content of education and the courses taken in college. We find that taking courses in college that are relevant to one's occupation is significantly associated with higher wages, which can be taken as evidence against the notion that returns to college are principally a matter of signaling. A student's wage increases, on average, by 1.5-2.1% for each matched course. |
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Almasi, Pooya, Aboozar Hadavand, Sarah Thomas and Orkideh Gharehgozli. "Relevance of Education to Occupation: A New Empirical Approach Based on College Courses." Education Economics 28,4 (2020): 370-383.
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Hadavand, Aboozar |
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Educational Aid Policy and Inequality: The Case for Merit- and Need-based Aid Review of Social Economy 76,4 (2018): 535-562. Also: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00346764.2018.1525760 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group Keyword(s): Educational Costs; Financial Assistance; Wage Gap Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using model in which the assignment of skills to tasks is determined by relative productivities and are endogenously determined by ability, access to higher education, and technology, I find the effect of different educational aid schemes (including need-based aid, merit-based aid, or a combination of the two) on the distribution of wages. I calibrate the model using NLSY97 data and find that in general, determining what policy minimizes inequality depends on the elasticities of demand for higher education of each ability/human capital group, the labor shares of each group, and the share of resources devoted to each group. Given the model parameters, both merit-based and need-based policies are preferred to a policy based on both merit and need. Moreover, under the model parameters, a need-based policy reduces wage inequality more than a merit-based policy. |
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Hadavand, Aboozar. "Educational Aid Policy and Inequality: The Case for Merit- and Need-based Aid." Review of Social Economy 76,4 (2018): 535-562.
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Hadavand, Aboozar |
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Essays on Economics of Inequality Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, City University of New York, 2017 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB); Cognitive Ability; Educational Attainment; Financial Assistance; Wage Gap Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In the third chapter, using model in which the assignment of skills to tasks is determined by relative productivities and are endogenously determined by ability, access to higher education, and technology, I find the effect of different educational aid schemes (including need-based aid, merit-based aid, or a combination of the two) on the distribution of wages. I calibrate the model using NLSY97 data and find that in general, determining what policy minimizes inequality depends on the elasticities of demand for higher education of each ability/human capital group, the labor shares of each group, and the share of resources devoted to each group. Given the model parameters, both merit-based and need-based policies are preferred to a policy based on both merit and need. Moreover, under the model parameters, a need-based policy reduces wage inequality more than a merit-based policy. |
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Hadavand, Aboozar. Essays on Economics of Inequality. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, City University of New York, 2017. |