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Where is the supporting evidence in the paper of that educational outcomes is "because of disincentives"? At least I can't find any.
by uola 10y ago
Where is the supporting evidence in the paper of that educational outcomes is "because of disincentives"? At least I can't find any.
- mseebach 10y agoDid you look? I literally ctrl-F'ed for "incentive" and found this. Page 44: 3.5 Welfare Levels and Educational Incentives It is well established that the economic returns to education are substantially lower in Denmark and the other Scandinavian countries than in the U.S. (see, e.g., Fredriksson and Topel, 2010; Harmon et al., 2003) ... As noted in Edin and Topel (1997) and Fredriksson and Topel (2010), incentives to pursue education diminish as returns to education decrease and welfare benefits increase. That's just the first few lines, the argument is hashed out (with references) over the next couple of pages.
- uola 10y agoYes, I did look but unless you put a heavy emphasis on the word "partly" the conclusion in the paper didn't seem in line with the abstract. "The results presented here establish a negative relationship between educational enrollment and the level of public benefits, albeit with two caveats. First, it is beyond the scope of this paper to estimate the underlying behavioral parameters—we strongly encourage future research to explore this relationship further. Second, we neither have precise estimates of [...] the disincentives for educational attainment that wage compression and public benefits constitute. Hence, we cannot determine whether the similarities in educational mobility in the two countries occur because the effects offset each other, though we find this to be a plausible explanation given the evidence at hand."
- mseebach 10y agoThat section just says that they don't know how to isolate the effect of public benefits from that of the wage compression disincentives?