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Direct linkDhuey, Elizabeth; Lipscomb, Stephen – Economics of Education Review, 2008
Economists have identified a substantial adult wage premium attached to high school leadership activity. Unresolved is the extent to which it constitutes human capital acquisition or proxies for an "innate" unobserved skill. We document a determinant of high school leadership activity that is associated purely with school structure, rather than…
Descriptors: Human Capital, High Schools, Maturity (Individuals), Student Leadership
Cascio, Elizabeth U.; Lewis, Ethan G. – Journal of Human Resources, 2006
How much can late schooling investments close racial and ethnic skill gaps? We investigate this question by exploiting the large differences in completed schooling that arise among teenagers with birthdays near school-entry cutoff dates. We estimate that an additional year of high school raises the Armed Forces Qualifying Test (AFQT) scores of…
Descriptors: Investigations, Scores, Birth, Adolescents
