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Abdulkadiroglu, Atila - 2017

School choice may lead to improvements in school productivity if parents' choices reward effective schools and punish … ineffective ones. This mechanism requires parents to choose schools based on causal effectiveness rather than peer characteristics … estimate impacts on college attendance and college quality. Parents prefer schools that enroll high-achieving peers, and these …

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Can Falling Supply Explain the Rising Return to College for Younger Men? A Cohort-Based Analysis

Card, David - 2000

Although the college-high school wage gap for younger men has doubled over the past 30 years, the gap for older men has remained nearly constant. We argue that these shifts reflect changes in the relative supply of highly-educated workers across age groups. Cohorts born in the first half of the...

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The Long-Term Effects of Universal Preschool in Boston

Gray-Lobe, Guthrie; Pathak, Parag A.; Walters, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We use admissions lotteries to estimate the effects of large-scale public preschool in Boston on college-going, college preparation, standardized test scores, and behavioral outcomes. Preschool enrollment boosts college attendance, as well as SAT test-taking and high school graduation. Preschool...

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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 …

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Wage Dispersion, Returns to Skill, and Black-White Wage Differentials

Card, David - 1993

During the 1980s wage differentials between younger and older workers and between more and less educated workers expanded rapidly. Wage dispersion among individuals with the same age and education also rose. A simple explanation for both sets of facts is that earnings represent a return to a...

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Still Worth the Trip? School Busing Effects in Boston and New York

Angrist, Joshua D.; Gray-Lobe, Guthrie; Idoux, Clemence M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

tried to integrate schools. Today, district-wide choice allows Boston and New York students to enroll far from home, perhaps …

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Still worth the trip? : school busing effects in Boston and New York

Angrist, Joshua D.; Gray-Lobe, Guthrie; Idoux, Clemence M. - 2022

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Can Compulsory Military Service Increase Civilian Wages? Evidence from the Peacetime Draft in Portugal

Card, David - 2011

Although military conscription was widespread during most of the past century, credible evidence on the effects of mandatory service is limited. We provide new evidence on the long-term effects of peacetime conscription, using longitudinal data for Portuguese men born in 1967. These men were...

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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 …

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Free to Choose : Can School Choice Reduce Student Achievement?

Abdulkadiroglu, Atila - 2015

disadvantaged students to attend private schools of their choice. We exploit random assignment of LSP vouchers at oversubscribed …

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