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average relative mobility in this sample is approximately 0.17 and expected health rank for children of parents at the 25th …
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years of schooling completed, earnings, family income, composition of friends, and probability of voting. Our results … provide evidence of a positive link between attending a college with greater diversity and higher earnings and family income …
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The Texas 10% law states that students who graduated among the top 10% of their high school class are guaranteed … connected decisions: students' application behavior, admission decisions by the university, students' enrollment choices … conditional on admission; as well as the resulting college achievement. We identify these effects by comparing students just above …
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This paper explores the long-run health benefits of education for longevity. Using mortality data from the Social Security Administration (1988-2005) linked to geographic locations in the 1940-census data, we exploit changes in college availability across cohorts in local areas. We estimate an...
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of US schools, reshaping the group of peers with whom students age through adolescence. US-born students are more likely … to have foreign-born peers and foreign-born students are more likely to be educated outside of enclaves. This study … examines the short-term and long-term impact of being educated with immigrant peers, for both US-born and foreign-born students …
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Although the measurement of intergenerational income mobility has seen a rapid increase in attention and policy … estimates of intergenerational income mobility because educational mobility both contributes to income mobility and is a target …
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of siblings in the determination of children's human capital as well as the potential for typically uncounted benefits to … improving children's health through family multiplier effects …
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While several types of mental illness, including substance abuse disorders, have been linked with poor labor market outcomes, no current research has been able to examine the effects of childhood ADHD. As ADHD has become one of the most prevalent childhood mental conditions, it is useful to...
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