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Orley Ashenfelter
Researcher at Princeton University
Publications - 254
Citations - 19558
Orley Ashenfelter is an academic researcher from Princeton University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Wage & Arbitration. The author has an hindex of 65, co-authored 253 publications receiving 18767 citations. Previous affiliations of Orley Ashenfelter include Institute for the Study of Labor & National Bureau of Economic Research.
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Estimating the Effect of Training Programs on Earnings.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the first three months of training under the Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) in the U.S. in order to measure the full inter-temporal impact of training.
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Estimates of the Economic Return to Schooling from a New Sample of Twins
Alan B. Krueger,Alan B. Krueger,Alan B. Krueger,Orley Ashenfelter,Orley Ashenfelter,Orley Ashenfelter +5 more
TL;DR: The authors used a survey of identical twins to study the economic returns to schooling and found that an additional year of schooling increases wages by 12-16 percent, a higher estimate of the economic retums to schooling than has been previously found.
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Using the Longitudinal Structure of Earnings to Estimate the Effect of Training Programs
Orley Ashenfelter,David Card +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the longitudinal structure of earnings of trainees and a comparison group to estimate the effectiveness of training for the 1976 cohort of CETA trainees, and found that the training effect for adult male CETA partici- pants is about 300 dollars per year.
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Estimates of the Economic Returns to Schooling from a New Sample of Twins
TL;DR: This paper used a new survey to compare the wages of genetically identical twins with different schooling levels and found that an additional year of schooling increases wages by 12 to 16 percent, a higher estimate of the economic returns to schooling than has been previously found.
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Using the Longitudinal Structure of Earnings to Estimate the Effect of Training Programs
Orley Ashenfelter,David Card +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the longitudinal structure of earnings of trainees and a comparison group to estimate the effectiveness of training for the 1976 cohort of CETA trainees by fitting a components-of-variance model of earnings to the control group, and posing a simple model of program participation.