The Enrollment Effects of Merit-Based Financial Aid: Evidence from Georgia's HOPE Program
Christopher Cornwell, David B. Mustard, Deepa J. Sridhar
Introduced in 1993, Georgia's HOPE Program sponsors a merit-based scholarship for students attending in-state colleges and a grant for those entering technical schools. There are no income...
The Effects of State-Sponsored Merit Scholarships on Course Selection and Major Choice in College
Christopher Cornwell, Kyung Hee Lee, David B. Mustard
A common justification for HOPE-style merit-aid programs is to promote and reward academic achievement, thereby inducing greater investments in human capital. However, grade-based eligibility and...
Merit Aid and Sorting: The Effects of HOPE-Style Scholarships on College Ability Stratification
Christopher Cornwell, David B. Mustard
In the last fifteen years there has been a significant increase in merit aid. Coincident with this increase in merit aid has been increased attention to sorting in various aspects of life, especially...
Christopher Cornwell, Peter Rupert
An empirical investigation of the relationship between marriage and wages, arguing that marriage signals certain unobservable individual characteristics - including ability, honesty, loyalty,...
Estimation of Output and Input Technical Efficiency Using a Flexible Form and Panel Data.
Atkinson, Scott E, Cornwell, Christopher
The Farrell (1957) concept of technical efficiency can be measured in two ways--denoted output and input technical efficiency. The empirical literature does not distinguish between the two measures...
Atkinson, Scott E, Cornwell, Christopher, Honerkamp, Olaf
Measuring productivity change with Malmquist indices has become common practice, because they are easily computed using nonparametric programming techniques and can be readily decomposed into...
Parametric Estimation of Technical and Allocative Inefficiency with Panel Data.
Atkinson, Scott E, Cornwell, Christopher
The error-components approach to estimating allocative inefficiency imposes restrictive assumptions on the distributions of the errors and functional form. The parametric approach does not require...
Estimating the Economic Model of Crime with Panel Data.
Cornwell, Christopher, Trumbull, William N
Previous attempts at estimating the economic model of crime with aggregate data relied heavily on cross-section econometric techniques and, therefore, do not control for unobserved heterogeneity....
Unobservable Individual Effects, Marriage and the Earnings of Young Men.
Cornwell, Christopher, Rupert, Peter
While there is compelling evidence that married men earn more than unmarried men, the source of this premium remains unsettled. Using panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Men,...
PRODUCTION FRONTIERS WITH CROSS-SECTINAL AND TIME-SERIES VARIATION IN EFFICIENCY LEVELS
Cornwell, Christopher, Schmidt, Peter, Sickles, Robin C.
estimator ; instrumental variables ; time series ; economic models ; methodology