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students, and estimate effects on Black children using both a neighboring-counties design and an IV strategy. We find that … students - an outcome that was typical in the segregated U.S. South (Horace Mann Bond, 1934). In majority-Black school … capita fund, and the resulting high expenditures on white students rendered these districts ineligible for the equalization …
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A longstanding question in the economics of the family is the relationship between sibship size and subsequent human capital formation and economic welfare. If there is a causal "quantity-quality tradeoff," then policies that discourage large families should lead to increased human capital,...
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parental leave from 12 to 24 months for children born on July 1, 1990 or later. We use test scores from the Austrian PISA test …
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Although the practice of military conscription was widespread during most of the past century, credible evidence on the effects of mandatory service is limited. Angrist (1990) showed that the Vietnam-era draft in the U.S. lowered the early-career wages of conscripts, a finding he attributed to...
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