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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011460662
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Which immigrants are most innovative and entrepreneurial? Distinctions by entry visa
Hunt, Jennifer - 2010
Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269550
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292207
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Why do women leave science and engineering?
Hunt, Jennifer - 2012
I use the 1993 and 2003 National Surveys of College Graduates to examine the higher exit rate of women compared to men from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher relative exit rate is driven by engineering rather than science, and show that 60% of the gap can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290019
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The impact of immigration on the educational attainment of natives
Hunt, Jennifer - 2012
completion of natives in the United States. Immigrant children could compete for schooling resources with native children …, lowering the return to native education and discouraging native high school completion. Conversely, native children might be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289936
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292121
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012653031