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Returns to Schooling: A Quantile Regression
This paper contributes to the large body of economic literature that attempts to estimate the returns to schooling. It uses quantile regression to estimate the effect of an additional year of education on monthly wage for earners in different quantiles. Using data from the young men’s cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey, the paper attempts to control for ability, family background, geography, and race, and finds that the returns to schooling is approximately 3.49% for men. Furthermore, the paper finds that while the effect of education on earnings is not significantly different from quantile to quantile, the significance of education increases with earnings
Twelve shear surface waves guided by clamped/free boundaries in magneto-electro-elastic materials
It is shown that surface waves with twelve different velocities in the cases
of different magneto-electrical boundary conditions can be guided by the
interface of two identical magneto-electro-elastic half-spaces. The plane
boundary of one of the half-spaces is clamped while the plane boundary of the
other one is free of stresses. The 12 velocities of propagation of these
surface waves are obtained is explicit forms. It is shown that the number of
different surface wave velocities decreases from 12 to 2 if the
magneto-electro-elastic material is changed to a piezoelectric material.Comment: 7 pages, no figure
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