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David A. Jaeger
Researcher at University of Cologne
Publications - 65
Citations - 7558
David A. Jaeger is an academic researcher from University of Cologne. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Cycle of violence. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 65 publications receiving 7107 citations. Previous affiliations of David A. Jaeger include National Bureau of Economic Research & College of William & Mary.
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Problems with Instrumental Variables Estimation when the Correlation between the Instruments and the Endogenous Explanatory Variable is Weak
TL;DR: In this article, the use of instruments that explain little of the variation in the endogenous explanatory variables can lead to large inconsistencies in the IV estimates even if only a weak relationship exists between the instruments and the error in the structural equation.
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Degrees matter: new evidence on sheepskin effects in the returns to education.
David A. Jaeger,Marianne Page +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that completing a bachelors degree was worth more than the human capital acquired during three years of college, and the marginal returns to receiving either an academic or an occupational associates degree were statistically significant for White women raising wages by 10-20%.
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Direct Evidence on Risk Attitudes and Migration
TL;DR: This paper found that individuals who are more willing to take risks are more likely to migrate between labor markets in Germany, and this result is robust to stratifying by age, sex, education, national origin and a variety of other demographic characteristics, as well as to the level of aggregation used to define geographic mobility.
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Reconciling the Old and New Census Bureau Education Questions: Recommendations for Researchers
TL;DR: This article examined the effects of the old and new questions on the estimated return(s) to education and found that both the estimated linear return and the estimated college-high-school wage differential are slightly larger using information from the new question.
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Shift-Share Instruments and the Impact of Immigration
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present evidence that estimates based on this "shift-share" instrument conflate the short-and long-run responses to immigration shocks, and propose a "multiple instrumentation" procedure that isolates the spatial variation arising from changes in the country-of-origin composition at the national level and permits them to estimate separately the short and long run effects.