Adam Stevenson: Research | |
Publications The Labor Supply and Tax Revenue Consequences of Same-Sex Marriage Legalization, National Tax Journal 65(4), 783-806, 2012. Online appendix The issue of same-sex marriage
legalization is increasingly part of the national political dialogue.
This legalization would have a number of economic impacts, one of the
most direct being a change in income tax payments, through the
so-called marriage penalty. I estimate the eects of same-sex marriage
legalization on federal income tax revenue. These estimates rely
critically on the responsiveness of labor supply and marital choice to
changes in the tax code. I present new evidence on both topics using
changes in taxation generated from the 2003 Jobs and Growth Tax Relief
Reconciliation Act. In addition, I propose a novel measure of the
marriage penalty that incorporates the fact that agents will respond optimally to changes in marginal tax rates within the household. The Male-Female Gap in Post-Baccalaureate School Quality, Economics of Education Review 36, 153-165, 2013. Online appendix Women are less likely than men to earn degrees from high-quality post-baccalaureate programs, and this tendency has been growing over time. I show that, aside from the biomedical sciences, this can not be explained by changes in the type of program where women tend to earn degrees. Instead, sorting by quality within field is the main contributor to the growing gap. Most of this sorting is due to the initial choice in which program type to apply to. No gender differences arise in terms of enrollment or attrition choices, and admissions committees in high-quality post-baccalaureate programs appear to favor women. The Returns to Quality in Graduate Education Education Economics, 24(5), 445-464, 2016 This
paper presents estimates of the monetary return to quality in U.S.
graduate education. These estimates control for student cognitive
ability and self-selection across award level, program quality, and
feld-of-study. In most program types, there are not signifcant returns
to either graduate degree completion or program quality. The important
exceptions include master's programs in the health sciences, where
simple completion increases student earnings, and in MBA and
professional degree programs, where program quality has a signifcant
positive influence on earnings. I also explore the job characteristics
that predict greater earnings among students with tertiary education,
and I estimate the returns to quality in terms of non-monetary job
benefits. |
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Working papers Migration to the US among Workers with Advanced Degrees The
US recieves the greatest number of highly-educated workers in the
world. I estimate the determinants of migration choice among
tertiary-educated workers, separating out the effect of wage gains and
migration cost across graduate degree types. Master's degree
holders migrate to the US in the greatest numbers among
graduate-educated workers, and the are the most sensitive to the
migration wage premium. Using dynamic panel methods to estimate a
modified Roy equation, I show that migrants who move to the US for the
purpose of education are substantially more interested in the
migration wage premium than those who migrate while already holding an
advanced degree. Policies focusing on rewarding and retaining
educational migrants will be particularly useful in developing a
country's stock of the most highly-educated workers. | |
Papers in early development High School STEM course taking and college STEM outcomes |