Centre for Human Capital and Productivity. CHCP Working Papers

 

The Centre for Human Capital and Productivity (CHCP), formerly the CIBC Centre for Human Capital and Productivity, has a broad mandate to study and provide policy advice on issues related to human capital and productivity. In addition to publishing a working paper series, the CHCP sponsors conferences, seminars, and workshops on human capital and productivity. Papers issued before 2016 were published as "CIBC Centre for Human Capital and Productivity Working Papers."

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Submissions from 2017

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2017-27 How Heterogeneous is Productivity? A Comparison of Gross Output and Value Added, Amit Gandhi, Salvador Navarro, and David Rivers

Submissions from 2016

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2016-1 Ageing and the Skill Portfolio: Evidence from Job Based Skill Measures, Audra J. Bowlus, Hiroaki Mori, and Chris Robinson

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2016-2 Occupational Choice, Human Capital, and Financial Constraints, Rui Castro and Pavel Ševčík

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2016-3 The Effect of Education and School Quality on Female Crime, Javier Cano-Urbina and Lance Lochner

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2016-4 Demand and Supply Effects and Returns to College Education - Evidence from a Natural Experiment with Engineers in Denmark, Hans-Peter Y. Qvist, Anders Holm, and Martin D. Munk

Submissions from 2015

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2015-1 Separating State Dependence, Experience, and Heterogeneity in a Model of Youth Crime and Education, Maria Antonella Mancino, Salvador Navarro, and David A. Rivers

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2015-2 The Returns to Schooling in Rural China: Evidence from the Cultural Revolution Education Expansion, Terry Sicular and Juan Yang

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2015-3 Correlation, Consumption, Confusion, or Constraints: Why Do Poor Children Perform So Poorly?, Elizabeth M. Caucutt, Lance J. Lochner, and Youngmin Park

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2015-4 Social Interactions, Mechanisms, and Equilibrium: Evidence from a Model of Study Time and Academic Achievement, Tim Conley, Nirav Mehta, Ralph Stinebrickner, and Todd R. Stinebrickner

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2015-5 Explaining the Evolution of Educational Attainment in the U.S., Rui Castro and Daniele Coen-Pirani

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2015-6 An Economic Approach to Generalizing Findings from Regression-Discontinuity Designs, Nirav Mehta

Submissions from 2014

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2014-1 Default and Repayment among Baccalaureate Degree Earners, Lance J. Lochner and Alexander Monge-Naranjo

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2014-2 Understanding Earnings Dynamics: Identifying and Estimating the Changing Roles of Unobserved Ability, Permanent and Transitory Shocks, Lance J. Lochner and Youngki Shin

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2014-3 Targeting the Wrong Teachers: Estimating Teacher Quality for Use in Accountability Regimes, Nirav Mehta

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2014-4 Model Uncertainty and the Effect of Shall-Issue Right-to-Carry Laws on Crime, Steven N. Durlauf, Salvador Navarro, and David A. Rivers

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2014-5 Student Loans and Repayment: Theory, Evidence and Policy, Lance J. Lochner and Alexander Monge-Naranjo

Submissions from 2013

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2013-1 The Changing Determinants of High School Attainment in Rural China, Juan Yang, Terry Sicular, and Desheng Lai

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2013-2 Are Exporters More Productive than Non-Exporters?, David A. Rivers

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2013-3 Analysis of the CSLP Student Loan Defaulter Survey and Client Satisfaction Surveys, Lance J. Lochner, Todd R. Stinebrickner, and Utku Suleymanoglu

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2013-4 A Major in Science? Initial Beliefs and Final Outcomes for College Major and Dropout, Ralph Stinebrickner and Todd R. Stinebrickner

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2013-5 Academic Performance and College Dropout: Using Longitudinal Expectations Data to Estimate a Learning Model, Ralph Stinebrickner and Todd R. Stinebrickner

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2013-6 Immigrant Job Search Assimilation in Canada, Audra J. Bowlus, Masashi Miyairi, and Chris Robinson

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2013-7 The Importance of Financial Resources for Student Loan Repayment, Lance J. Lochner, Todd R. Stinebrickner, and Utku Suleymanoglu

Submissions from 2012

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2012-1 Credit Constraints in Education, Lance J. Lochner and Alexander Monge-Naranjo

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2012-2 The Contributions of Search and Human Capital to Earnings Growth over the Life Cycle, Audra J. Bowlus and Huju Liu