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Where Do STEM Graduates Stem From? The Intergenerational Transmission of Comparative Skill Advantages

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

comparative advantages in math of parents are significantly linked to those of their children. A causal interpretation follows … quality. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields …

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Introducing CogX : A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2020

We present the results of a novel early childhood intervention in which disadvantaged 3-4-year- old children were … evaluated a shortened summer version of the program (2 months) in which children were treated immediately prior to the start of …

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Are High Quality Schools Enough to Close the Achievement Gap? Evidence from a Social Experiment in Harlem

Dobbie, Will - 2009

Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ), which combines community investments with reform minded charter schools, is one of the … eliminate the achievement gap or whether the issues that poor children bring to school are too much for educators alone to … overcome. Both lottery and instrumental variable identification strategies lead us to the same story: Harlem Children's Zone is …

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Valuing Identity

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2010

Affirmative action policies are practiced around the world. This paper explores the welfare economics of such policies. A model is proposed where heterogeneous agents, distinguished by skill level and social identity, compete for positions in a hierarchy. The problem of designing an efficient...

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Understanding Trends in Chinese Skill Premiums, 2007-2018

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Wang, Yuan; Zhang, Lei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The dramatic expansion of the education system and the transformation of the economy in China provide an opportunity to investigate how the labor market rewards skills. Between 2007 and 2018, the overall return to cognitive skills is virtually constant at 10%, whereas the college premium drops...

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The 'Pupil' Factory : Specialization and the Production of Human Capital in Schools

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2016

achievement is -0.042 standard deviations in math and -0.034 standard deviations in reading, per year. Students enrolled in … this, specialized teachers report providing less attention to individual students (relative to non-specialized teachers …

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The Production of Human Capital in Developed Countries : Evidence from 196 Randomized Field Experiments

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2016

Randomized field experiments designed to better understand the production of human capital have increased exponentially over the past several decades. This chapter summarizes what we have learned about various partial derivatives of the human capital production function, what important partial...

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Global Universal Basic Skills : Current Deficits and Implications for World Development

Gust, Sarah; Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

achievement tests, we map achievement onto a common (PISA) scale. We then estimate the share of children not achieving basic …

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