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Early life environment and racial inequality in education and earnings in the United States

Chay, Kenneth Y.; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2014

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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Estimating the technology of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation

Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James Joseph; Schennach, Susanne - 2010

This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills … investment in children compared to later remediation. We establish nonparametric identification of a general class of production … targeting of interventions to children with different parental and personal birth endowments. Substitutability decreases in …

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Estimating the technology of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation

Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J.; Schennach, Susanne M. - 2010

This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills … investment in children compared to later remediation. We establish nonparametric identfication of a general class of production … targeting of interventions to children with different parental and personal birth endowments. Substitutability decreases in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288377

Separating uncertainty from heterogeneity in life cycle earnings

Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J.; Navarro, Salvador - 2005

forecastable at the time students decide to go to college (heterogeneity) and components that are unforecastable. About 60 % of …

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Nonparametric analysis of intergenerational income mobility with application to the United States

Bhattacharya, Debopam; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2010

the relationship between the incomes of parents and future earnings of their children. We focus on two different measures …This paper concerns the problem of inferring the effects of covariates on intergenerational income mobility, i.e. on … of mobility- (i) traditional transition probability of movement across income quantiles over generations and (ii) a new …

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Birth cohort and the black-white achievement gap: The roles of health soon after birth

Chay, Kenneth Y.; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2009

One literature documents a significant, black-white gap in average test scores, while another finds a substantial narrowing of the gap during the 1980's, and stagnation in convergence after. We use two data sources - the Long Term Trends NAEP and AFQT scores for the universe of applicants to the...

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The long-run effects of the 1930s HOLC "redlining" maps on place-based measures of economic opportunity and socioeconomic success

Aaronson, Daniel; Faber, Jacob; Hartley, Daniel; … - 2020

We estimate the long-run effects of the 1930s Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) redlining maps on census tract-level measures of socioeconomic status and economic opportunity from the Opportunity Atlas (Chetty et al. 2018). We use two identification strategies to identify the long-run effects...

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