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Care or Cash? The Effect of Child Care Subsidies on Student Performance

Black, Sandra E. - 2012

, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic … these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school …

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Laws, Educational Outcomes, and Returns to Schooling : Evidence from the Full Count 1940 Census

Clay, Karen - 2016

This paper uses a new dataset on state compulsory attendance, continuation school, and child labor laws with the 1940 full count Census of Population to estimate the returns to schooling for native-born white men in the 1885-1912 birth cohorts. IV estimates of returns to schooling range from...

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Compulsory Education and the Benefits of Schooling

Stephens, Melvin, Jr - 2013

Causal estimates of the benefits of increased schooling using U.S. state schooling laws as instruments typically rely on specifications which assume common trends across states in the factors affecting different birth cohorts. Differential changes across states during this period, such as...

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The Impact of Health on Labor Market Outcomes : Experimental Evidence from MRFIT

Stephens, Melvin, Jr - 2018

earnings and family income. We find few differences in estimated gains by baseline health and occupation characteristics …

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PLUS or Minus? : The Effect of Graduate School Loans on Access, Attainment, and Prices

Black, Sandra E.; Turner, Lesley J.; Denning, Jeffrey T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

the Graduate PLUS loan program. Access to additional federal loans increased graduate students' borrowing and shifted the … in constrained students' persistence or degree receipt. We document that among programs in which a larger share of … graduate students had exhausted their annual federal loan eligibility before the policy change--and thus were more exposed to …

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Efficacy vs. Equity : What Happens When States Tinker with College Admissions in a Race-Blind Era?

Black, Sandra E. - 2014

College admissions officers face a rapidly changing policy environment where court decisions have limited the use of affirmative action. At the same time, there is mounting evidence that commonly used signals of college readiness, such as the SAT/ACTs, are subject to race and socioeconomic bias....

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