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How the earnings growth of U.S. immigrants was underestimated

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2021

Two radically different descriptions of immigrant earnings trajectories in the U.S. have emerged. One asserts that immigrant men following the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act have low initial earnings and high earnings growth. Another asserts that post-1965 immigrants have low initial...

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Country of origin, earnings convergence, and human capital investment : a new method for the analysis of U.S. immigrant economic assimilation

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2018

The initial earnings of U.S. immigrants vary enormously by country of origin. Via three interrelated analyses, we show earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States. Human-capital theory plausibly explains the inverse relationship between initial earnings and...

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A historical note on the assimilation rates of foreign-born women in the U.S.

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Dowhan, Dan; Liu, Xingfei - 2023

Using historical, longitudinal data on individuals, we track the earnings of immigrant and U.S.-born women. Following individuals, instead of synthetic cohorts, avoids biases in earnings-growth estimates caused by compositional changes in the cohorts that are followed. The historical data...

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Does class size matter for school tracking outcomes after elementary school? : quasi-experimental evidence using administrative panel data from Germany

Argaw, Bethlehem Asres; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2017

We use administrative panel data on about a quarter of a million students in the German state of Hesse to estimate the … quasi-random assignment of students to different class sizes based on maximum class size rules. In Germany, students are … actual choice to attend the more academic middle school type. For male students, we find that an increase in class size by 10 …

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