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lectures/_static/quant-econ.bib

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Note: Extended Information (like abstracts, doi, url's etc.) can be found in quant-econ-extendedinfo.bib file in _static/
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@book{Burns_2023,
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title={Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative by Jennifer Burns},
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author={Burns, Jennifer},
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year={2023},
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publisher={Farrar, Straus, and Giroux},
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address = {New York}
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}
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@article{kuznets1939incomes,
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title={Incomes from independent professional practice, 1929-1936},
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author={Kuznets, Simon and Friedman, Milton},
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journal={National Bureau of Economic Research Bulletin},
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number = {72-23},
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year={1939},
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publisher={National Bureau of Economic Research}
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}
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@book{friedman1954incomes,
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title={Income from Independent Professional Practice},
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author={Friedman, Milton and Kuznets, Simon},
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year={1945},
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publisher={National Bureau of Economic Research},
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address = {New York}
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}
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@book{smith2010wealth,
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title = {The Wealth of Nations: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the Wealth of Nations},
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author = {Smith, Adam},

lectures/equalizing_difference.md

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This lecture presents a model of the college-high-school wage gap in which the
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"time to build" a college graduate plays a key role.
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```{note}
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Milton Friedman used our model to study whether differences in the earnings of US dentists and doctors were justified by competitive labor markets or whether
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they reflected entry barriers imposed by US governments working in conjunction with doctors' lobbies. Chapter 4 of Jennifer Burns {cite}`Burns_2023` presents an
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interesting account of Milton Friedman's joint work with Simon Kuznets that eventually led to the publication of {cite}`kuznets1939incomes` and {cite}`friedman1954incomes`. To map Friedman's application to our model, think of our high school students as Friedman's dentists and our college graduates as Friedman's doctors.
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The model is "incomplete" in the sense that it is just one "condition" in the form of a single equation that would be part of set equations comprising all "equilibrium conditions" of a more fully articulated model.
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The condition featured in our model determines a college, high-school wage ratio that equalizes the present values of a high school worker and a college educated worker.

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