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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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Returns for Entrepreneurs versus Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vis-a-vis Wage Employees
van Praag, Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van der … - 2009
measure ‘income’). This is the case even when estimating individual fixed effects of the differential returns to education for …/or whether we use instrumental variables to cope with the endogenous nature of education in income equations. Finally, we find …
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Comparing the returns to education for entrepreneurs and employees
van der Sluis, Justin; van Praag, Mirjam; van … - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325189
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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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If you are so smart, why aren't you an Entrepreneur?
Hartog, Joop; van Praag, Mirjam; van der Sluis, Justin - 2008
generates a higher income, but only for entrepreneurs: This finding supports Lazear's Jack-of-all-Trades theory. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325829
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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...
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