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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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Does increasing parents' schooling raise the schooling of the next generation? Evidence based on conditional second moments
Farré, Lídia; Klein, Roger; Vella, Francis - 2009
This paper investigates the degree of intergenerational transmission of education for individuals from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Rather than identifying the causal effect of parental education via instrumental variables we exploit the feature of the transmission mechanism...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269060
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A parametric control function approach to estimating the returns to schooling in the absence of exclusion restrictions: An application to the NLSY
Farré, Lídia; Klein, Roger; Vella, Francis - 2010
An innovation which bypasses the need for instruments when estimating endogenous treatment effects is identification via conditional second moments. The most general of these approaches is Klein and Vella (2010) which models the conditional variances semiparametrically. While this is attractive,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269795
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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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Occupational mobility and the business cycle
Moscarini, Giuseppe; Vella, Francis - 2008
Do workers sort more randomly across different job types when jobs are harder to find? To answer this question, we study the mobility of male workers among three-digit occupations in the matched files of the monthly Current Population Survey over the 1979-2004 period. We clean individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268864
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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