characteristics. Adoption costs are lower for older children, special needs children, and children of African descent. To our … inform policies regarding the transition of children from foster care to adoptive families and may help to determine …

better at graduating more-prepared students while other institutions are better at graduating less-prepared students and that … 209 led to a more efficient sorting of minority students, explaining 18% of the graduation rate increase in our preferred … specification. Further, there appears to have been behavioral responses to Prop 209, by universities and/or students, that explain …

willing to forego 46 pct. of their potential income in order to enjoy the consumption value of this educational type. …

migration there over the period 1971-2001. What we find is that the stock of foreign students is an important predictor of …

women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap …. College educated women marry later, have fewer children, are less likely to view marriage as financial security, are happier …