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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 social value of higher education: willingness to pay for community and technical colleges

Blomquist, Glenn C.; Coomes, Paul A.; Jepsen, Christopher; … - 2009

Much is known about private returns to education in the form of higher earnings. Less is known about social value, over and above the private, market value. Associations between education and socially-desirable outcomes are strong, but disentangling the effect of education from other causal...

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New estimates of public employment and training program net impacts: a nonexperimental evaluation of the workforce investment act program

Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Mueser, Peter R.; Troske, Kenneth R. - 2009

This paper presents nonexperimental net impact estimates for the Adult and Dislocated Worker programs under the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), the primary federal job training program in the U.S, based on administrative data from 12 states, covering approximately 160,000 WIA participants and...

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Down from the mountain: skill upgrading and wages in Appalachia

Bollinger, Christopher R.; Ziliak, James Patrick; … - 2009

Despite evidence that skilled labor is increasingly concentrated in cities, whether regional wage inequality is predominantly due to differences in skill levels or returns is unknown. We compare Appalachia, with its wide mix of urban and rural areas, to other parts of the U.S., and find that...

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The labor-market returns to community college degrees, diplomas, and certificates

Jepsen, Christopher; Troske, Kenneth R.; Coomes, Paul A. - 2012

data from Kentucky, we estimate panel-data models that control for differences among students in pre-college earnings and …

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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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The effect of children on the level of labor market involvement of married women: what is the role of education?

Troske, Kenneth R.; Voicu, Alexandru - 2009

We analyze the way women's education influences the effect of children on their level of labor market involvement. We … of the effects of children and their correlation with the fertility decisions, and for the correlation of sequential … education work more before the birth of the first child, but children have larger negative effects on their level of labor …

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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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