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This ''equalizing difference'' equation determines a college-high-school wage ratio that equalizes present values of a high school educated worker and a college educated worker.
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The idea is that lifetime earnings somehow adjust to make a new high school worker indifferent between going to college and not going to college but instead going to work immmediately.
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The idea is that lifetime earnings somehow adjust to make a new high school worker indifferent between going to college and not going to college but instead going to work immediately.
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(The job of the "other equations" in a more complete model would be to describe what adjusts to bring about this outcome.)
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We suppose that $R, \gamma_h, \gamma_c, T$ and also $w_0^h$ are fixed parameters.
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We start by noting that the pure equalizing difference model asserts that the college-high-school wage gap $\phi$ solves an
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"equalizing" equation that sets the present value not going to college equal to the present value of going go college:
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"equalizing" equation that sets the present value not going to college equal to the present value of going to college:
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plt.show()
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Notice how the intitial wage gap falls when the rate of growth $\gamma_c$ of college wages rises.
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Notice how the initial wage gap falls when the rate of growth $\gamma_c$ of college wages rises.
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The wage gap falls to "equalize" the present values of the two types of career, one as a high school worker, the other as a college worker.
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of a successful entrepreneur's earnings to a worker's earnings.
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We'll find that as $\pi$ decreases, $\phi$ increases, indicating that the riskier it is to
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be an entrepreuner, the higher must be the reward for a successful project.
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be an entrepreneur, the higher must be the reward for a successful project.
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Now let's adopt the entrepreneur-worker interpretation of our model
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Thus, as with our earlier graph, we find that raising $R$ increases the initial college wage premium $\phi$.
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Compute $\frac{\partial \phi}{\partial T}$ and evaluate it a default parameters
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Compute $\frac{\partial \phi}{\partial T}$ and evaluate it at default parameters
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```{code-cell} ipython3
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ϕ_T = ϕ(D, γ_h, γ_c, R, T, w_h0).diff(T)

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