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Using Geographic Variation in College Proximity to Estimate the Return to Schooling
Card, David - 1993
affirm that marginal returns to education among children of less-educated parents are as high and perhaps much higher than … education and earnings than other men. The education and earnings gains are concentrated among men with poorly-educated parents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474462
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Effects of Weight on Adolescent Educational Attainment
Kaestner, Robert - 2009
In this paper, we investigate the association between weight and adolescent's educational attainment, as measured by highest grade attended, highest grade completed, and drop out status. Data for the study came from the 1997 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463655
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Racial Segregation and the Black-White Test Score Gap
Card, David - 2006
school and neighborhood segregation on the relative SAT scores of black students across different metropolitan areas, using … composition, income, and region. We find robust evidence that the black-white test score gap is higher in more segregated cities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466591