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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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A Comparison of the Human Capital and Signaling Models: The Case of the Self-Employed and the Increase in the Schooling Premium in the 1980?s

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000

This paper utilizes the self-employed to analyze the observed increase in the educational earnings premium in the 1980?s. The paper compares the predictions of the signaling and human capital models in response to an exogenous demand shock such as a skill-biased technological change. Since the...

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Is the GED an effective route to postsecondary education for school dropouts?

Tyler, John; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2008

potential biases, our approach is to base our estimates on a set of academically at risk students who are very similar in the 8 …

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Modeling the signaling value of the GED with an application to an exogenous passing standard increase in Texas

Lofstrom, Magnus; Tyler, John - 2007

In this paper we develop a simple model of the signaling value of the GED credential. The model illustrates necessary assumptions for a difference-in-difference estimator, which uses a change in the GED passing standard, to yield unbiased estimates of the signaling value of the GED for marginal...

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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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Self-Employment and Earnings among High-Skilled Immigrants in the United States

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000

This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two...

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Latina entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy - 2009

We utilize individual panel data from the 1996 and 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to analyze …

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Low-skilled immigrant entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009

-employed. Utilizing longitudinal data from the 1996, 2001 and 2004 Survey of Income and Program Participation panels, this paper analyzes …

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African Americansà pursuit of self-employment

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy - 2007

This study examines causes of black/white gaps in business ownership and self-employment rates by analyzing small-business entry and exit patterns. We proceed by recognizing heterogeneity in business ownership across different industry groups: a classification of firms by human- and...

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Why are Hispanic and African-American dropout rates so high?

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2007

The proportion of students who do not graduate from high school is dramatically higher among the two largest minority …

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