almost 60 years, for both the affected cohorts and for their children. To do this, we exploit a natural experiment provided … faced by immigrant children were not correlated with other factors that affected the long-term outcomes of individuals. We … locality of residence was a Yemenite enclave. We find that children who were placed in a better environment (i.e. with better …

ability distribution drive the impact of peer quality on students‟ achievements. To do so, we use census data for four cohorts … of pupils taking their age-14 national tests, and measure students‟ ability by their prior achievements at age-11. We …

targeted disadvantaged students in Israel. I show that the program led to significant gains in post-secondary education … universities. Free school choice increased also earnings at adulthood of treated students. Male students had much larger … improvements in college schooling and labor market outcomes. Female students, however, experienced higher increases in marriage and …

In this paper we propose a method to characterize the time series properties of individual consumption, income and … consumption and the studies that relate innovations to income to innovations to consumption, such as those that have found the so …

decomposing income shocks into group aggregate and idiosyncratic components, allowing us to measure the extent to which each … intergenerational structure of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. We find that over 60% of shocks to household income are potentially …

Study of Income Dynamics to explore the dynamics of alternative measures of consumption inequality. All of our different … nearly the same amount as income inequality …Recent research has documented that income inequality in the United States has increased dramatically over the prior …

through which these peer effects operate. We identify as low ability students those who are enrolled at least one year behind … repeaters and regular students. The status of repeaters is mostly determined by first grade; therefore, it is unlikely to have … variation in the proportion of these low ability students across cohorts of middle and high school students in Israel, we find …