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One paper by Steven Haider and Gary Solon challenged the traditional estimation of this quantity using its current analog as a proxy. Joshua Angrist used CWHS data to study the impacts on this quantity from military service and draft avoidance behavior from the Vietnam War draft lottery. The parameter B in a model to estimate this quantity by Gary Becker accounts for changes in physical and intellectual capability. Yoram Ben-Porath adapted that model to estimate this quantity into an individual (*) human capital production function, concluding that maximizing this quantity is equivalent to optimally investing in individual economic growth. Since the late 20th century, (-5[1])most labor economists have decomposed the growth of inequality in this quantity into persistent and transitory components. For 10 points, name this quantity that is, on median, 2.8 million dollars (-5[1])for holders of bachelor’s degrees. ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

ANSWER: lifetime earnings [accept career earnings; accept total lifetime income; accept descriptions indicating how much money one makes in one’s life; reject “salary” or “annual income”]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Cade ReinbergerRITSyracuse+Rochester102-5
Raymond WangCornell RCornell MATLAB132-5
Nathan ZhangCornell MATLABCornell R13810
Sanjeev UppaluriSyracuse+RochesterRIT1380

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