Georg Graetz’s scientific contributions

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Human Capital, Signaling, and Employer Learning. What Insights Do We Gain from Regression Discontinuity Designs
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January 2017

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Georg Graetz

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... The fact that sheepskin effects persist after controlling for initial student ability measures lends plausibility to the idea that part of what is credentialed is learned in school. This argument is similar to Graetz (2017), who points out the distinction between the "information content" of a degree and the signaling content. Under this argument, sheepskin effects identify β 2 > σ 2 . ...

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Human capital versus signaling is empirically unresolvable
Human Capital, Signaling, and Employer Learning. What Insights Do We Gain from Regression Discontinuity Designs
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  • January 2017

SSRN Electronic Journal