This year, all four major college football bowl games were decided way before
halftime. Presumably this had a significant negative influence on t.v. ratings, and
therefore made the advertising less valuable to advertisers than in a close contest.
Were I an advertiser in the second half of
I believe that is the Spence of the original cite for signaling behavior in labor
markets.
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who is spence?
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From: markjohn* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thursday, October 11, 2001 0:46 am
stiglitz, akerlof, spence
I made a mistake in my last post.
I meant Increasing the drinking age from 18 to 21
not dropping the drinking age to 18.
Cheers!
Ed
Edward J. López
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
University of North Texas
P.O. Box 311457
Denton, TX 76203-1457
Tel: 940.369.7005
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In a Forbes article last year, a professor of health at Indiana University notes that
since the increase in the legal drinking age to 21 (1987), total amount of alcohol
consumed dropped but the incidence of EXCESSIVE drinking increased among 18-20 year
olds.
1. any takers on why?
2. is a
According to an estimate by an organization that supports greater higher education
funding, the bachelor's degree is worth approximately $580,000 over a high school
diploma.
http://www.aft.org/higher_ed/funding/
Edward J. López
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
University of North
I recently read a newspaper column by a Daniel S. Cheever, president of Simmons
College in Boston. He claims that a college graduate will, on average, earn $800,000
more than a high school graduate over a lifetime.
Discounting aside, this still seems rather high to me. Not knowing this
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