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Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
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After three years in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), collegiate football players face a trade-off between spending more time in the NCAA and pursuing a career in the National Football League (NFL) by declaring for the draft. We analyze the starting salaries and signing...
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in the US. We challenge the long-held belief that BN primarily affects high income White teenagers, using a unique data …; as are girls from low income families compared to middle and high income families. We use another data set to show that … who is diagnosed with an eating disorder is in accord with popular beliefs, suggesting that African American and low-income …
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. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters … strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also …
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I document a strong negative cross-country correlation between intergenerational earnings persistence and tax progressivity, and between intergenerational earnings persistence and public expenditure on tertiary education. To explain these correlations I then develop an intergenerational...
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individuals face wage uncertainty. Though optimal labor distortions are history-dependent, i.e. depend on income and education …, simple policy instruments can yield the desired distortions: a single nonlinear labor income tax schedule combinedwith income … in income for this range. This result holds along the Pareto frontier. We compare the second best to a situation where …
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We investigate the relative significance of differences in cognitive skills and discrimination in explaining racial/ethnic wage gaps. We show that cognitive test scores taken prior to entering the labor market are influenced by schooling. Adjusting the scores for racial/ethnic differences in...
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forecastable at the time students decide to go to college (heterogeneity) and components that are unforecastable. About 60 % of …
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Because a significant portion of U.S. students lacks critical mathematic skills, schools across the country are … skills and tests designed specifically to target pre-algebra and algebra skills. We find that students randomly assigned to … computer-aided instruction score at least 0.17 of a standard deviation higher on a pre-algebra/algebra test than students …
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