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Essays on human capital.

Kidd, Andrew J.

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Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Essays on human capital./
Author:	Kidd, Andrew J.
Description:	143 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-11A(E).
Subject:	Economics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10137512
ISBN:	9781339932057

Essays on human capital.
Kidd, Andrew J.

Essays on human capital. - 143 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2016.

The first chapter studies the effect of teenage pregnancy on educational attainment and later-life work behaviors. I build upon the previous literature to estimate a more credible and policy-relevant effect of teenage pregnancy. Using propensity score matching estimation, I match individuals using a large set of controls, most importantly including reported teenage sexual behaviors. This allows me to treat the pregnancy event as random and estimate an unbiased effect of teenage pregnancy. I find adverse effects of teenage pregnancy on high school graduation and college attendance. I also perform analyses to study heterogeneous effects by age of pregnancy and to inform the literature using IV approaches to estimate the effect of teenage childbearing.

ISBN: 9781339932057Subjects--Topical Terms:

517137
Economics.

Essays on human capital.
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520 $a In the second chapter, I explore to what extent strict and loose TANF eligibility policies for teenage mothers mitigate the negative effect of teenage motherhood on certain educational outcomes. There is little evidence of how well policies targeted at mitigating these effects do at accomplishing their goals. This paper uses state variation in the activity requirement of minor parents for TANF eligibility to study to what extent a more restrictive eligibility policy (enrollment in formal secondary education) affects the educational attainment of teenage mothers. Implementing a difference-in-difference model with teenage motherhood and residency in a state with the stricter eligibility policy, I find that this requirement increases high school graduation and/or GED receipt of teenage mothers by age twenty-six and increases high school attendance at age seventeen.
520 $a In the final chapter, using institutional data, I implement a first-differences fixed effect framework to examine the effect of tuition and average financial aid on application and enrollment outcomes at top-ranked post-secondary public institutions in the United States. I find that out-of-state tuition significantly decreases the number of applications, yet in-state tuition significantly lowers enrollment. I also find that in-state tuition decreases the quality of enrollees as measured by the ACT Math and English section scores of enrollees. Financial aid does not significantly affect many of these outcomes. By performing F-tests, I find that it is a sticker price effect, not net price, on applications, enrollment, and some test scores.
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