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Stakes and Signals : An Empirical Investigation of Muddled Information in Standardized Testing

Reyes, Germán J.; Riehl, Evan; Xu, Ruqing - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We examine a natural experiment in Brazil in which similar students took the same standardized test as either a low-stakes school accountability exam or a high-stakes admission exam for the country's top universities. Using administrative data and a difference-in-differences design, we find that...

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Labor Market Effects of Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs : Lessons from Colombia

Ferreira, María M.; Galindo, Camila; Urzua, Sergio - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper estimates the heterogeneous labor market effects of enrolling in higher education short-cycle (SC) programs. Expanding access to these programs might affect the behavior of some students (compliers) in two margins: the expansion margin (students who would not have enrolled in higher...

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What Do Changes in State Test Scores Imply for Later Life Outcomes?

Doty, Elena; Kane, Thomas J.; Patterson, Tyler; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In the three decades before the pandemic, mean achievement of U.S. 8th graders in math rose by more than half a standard deviation on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Between 2019 and 2022, U.S. students had forfeited 40 percent of that rise. To anticipate the consequences...

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Distorted Innovation : Does the Market Get the Direction of Technology Right?

Acemoglu, Daron - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

innovation can be systematically distorted. This paper builds a simple model of endogenous technology, which generalizes existing … comparative static results and characterizes potential distortions in the direction of innovation. I show that empirical findings …

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Innovation Booms, Easy Financing, and Human Capital Accumulation

Hombert, Johan; Matray, Adrien - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Innovation booms are often fueled by easy financing that allows new technology firms to pay high wages that attracts …

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The Next Wave of Energy Innovation : Which Technologies? Which Skills?

Popp, David; Vona, Francesco; Gregoire-Zawilski, Myriam; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

of low-carbon energy innovation. These include both improvements in physical capital, such as smart grids to aid … document recent trends in energy innovation and discuss the lessons learnt for policy. We then discuss the potential role for … complementary innovation in both physical capital--using smart grids as an example of how policy can help--and human capital, where …

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Shaping Inequality and Intergenerational Persistence of Poverty : Free College or Better Schools

Krueger, Dirk; Ludwig, Alexander; Popova, Irina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We evaluate the aggregate, distributional and welfare consequences of alternative government education policies to encourage college completion, such as making college free and improving funding for public schooling. To do so, we construct a general equilibrium overlapping generations model with...

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The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Child Developmental Outcomes

Aizer, Anna; Lleras-Muney, Adriana; Michelmore, Katherine - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Child poverty fell to historic lows in 2021, in large part due to the temporary expansion of the Child Tax Credit (CTC). We consider the possible implications of this expansion on children's short- and long-term development. To do so, we review the available short-run evidence from the 2021...

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Maximum Impact Intergenerational Associations

Eshaghnia, Sadegh; Heckman, James J.; Landersø, Rasmus - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper presents a new approach to measuring the intergenerational transmission of well-being and a novel perspective on which measures and what age ranges to use to estimate intergenerational social mobility. We select the measures and the age ranges that best predict important human capital...

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Cognitive Endurance as Human Capital

Brown, Christina L.; Kaur, Supreet; Kingdon, Geeta Gandhi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Schooling may build human capital not only by teaching academic skills, but by expanding the capacity for cognition itself. We focus specifically on cognitive endurance: the ability to sustain effortful mental activity over a continuous stretch of time. As motivation, we document that globally...

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