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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 …
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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 …
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In Project STAR, 11,571 students in Tennessee and their teachers were randomly assigned to classrooms within their … impacts. First, students in small classes are significantly more likely to attend college and exhibit improvements on other …, students who had a more experienced teacher in kindergarten have higher earnings. Third, an analysis of variance reveals …
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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 …
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instrumental variables estimates of the sensitivity of income to changes in tax rates. From 1979 to 1981, the US income tax … changes in income between taxpayers close to the top-end of a tax bracket to the other taxpayers. These estimates, based on … comparisons between very similar groups, are robust to underlying changes in the income distribution, such as a rise in inequality …
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This paper investigates whether taxpayers bunch at the kink points of the US income tax schedule (i.e. where marginal … compensated elasticity of income with respect to tax rates. These models are used to perform simulations of bunching and calibrate … the key parameters (the behavioral elasticity and the extent to which taxpayers control their income) to the empirical …
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This paper analyzes the response of earnings to payroll tax rates using a cohort-based reform in Greece. All individuals who started working on or after 1993 face permanently a much higher earnings cap for payroll taxes, creating a large and permanent discontinuity in marginal payroll tax rates...
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This paper summarizes the main findings of a recent literature that has constructed top income shares time series over … the long-run for more than 20 countries using income tax statistics. Top incomes represent a small share of the population … but a very significant share of total income and total taxes paid. Hence, aggregate economic growth per capita and Gini …
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We use administrative records on the incomes of more than 40 million children and their parents to describe three … income at the national level. The conditional expectation of child income given parent income is linear in percentile ranks …. On average, a 10 percentile increase in parent income is associated with a 3.4 percentile increase in a child's income …
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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 …
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