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College Majors and Skills : Evidence from the Universe of Online Job Ads

Hemelt, Steven W.; Hershbein, Brad; Martin, Shawn M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We document the skill content of college majors as perceived by employers and expressed in the near universe of U.S. online job ads. Social and organizational skills are general in that they are sought by employers of almost all college majors, whereas other skills are more specialized. In turn,...

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Personnel Management and School Productivity : Evidence from India

Lemos, Renata; Muralidharan, Karthik; Scur, Daniela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

, management quality in public schools is low, and ~2σ below high-income countries with comparable data. Second, private schools …

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The Effects of Negative Equity on Children's Educational Outcomes

Been, Vicki; Ellen, Ingrid Gould; Figlio, David N.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This study examines the effects of negative equity on children's academic performance, using data on children attending … selection into initial mortgage terms. In contrast to the existing literature on foreclosure and children's outcomes, we find … that Florida students with the highest risk of negative equity exhibit significantly higher test score growth. These …

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Using Monotonicity Restrictions to Identify Models with Partially Latent Covariates

Bang, Minji; Gao, Wayne Yuan; Postlewaite, Andrew; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper develops a new method for identifying econometric models with partially latent covariates. Such data structures arise naturally in industrial organization and labor economics settings where data are collected using an "input-based sampling" strategy, e.g., if the sampling unit is one...

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Just Above the Exam Cutoff Score : Elite College Admission and Wages in China

Jia, Ruixue; Li, Hongbin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

A burgeoning literature has documented the importance of elite colleges. Yet, little is known about access to elite education and its labor market implications in China, a country that produces one in every five college graduates in the world. College admission in China is governed by a single...

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Charter Schools' Effectiveness, Mechanisms, and Competitive Influence

Cohodes, Sarah R.; Parham, Katharine S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

, and low-income students. Attending some urban charter schools also increases college enrollment and voting and reduces …This paper reviews the research on the impacts of charter school attendance on students' academic and other outcomes …

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The Distribution of School Spending Impacts

Jackson, Clement - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We use estimates across all known "credibly causal" studies to examine the distributions of the causal effects of public K12 school spending on test scores and educational attainment in the United States. Under reasonable assumptions, for each of the 31 included studies, we compute the same...

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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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Toward an Understanding of the Returns to Cognitive Skills Across Cohorts

Hellerstein, Judith K.; Luo, Sai; Urzua, Sergio - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Recent research concludes that wage returns to cognitive skills have declined in the U.S. We reassess this finding. Using decomposition methods, we document the pivotal role played by dynamic shifts in the distributions of pre-labor market cognitive skills. Our findings show these shifts explain...

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The Effect of Early Childhood Programs on Third-Grade Test Scores : Evidence from Transitional Kindergarten in Michigan

Berne, Jordan S.; Jacob, Brian Aaron; Musaddiq, Tareena; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Transitional Kindergarten (TK) is a relatively recent entrant into the U.S. early education landscape, combining features of public pre-K and regular kindergarten. We provide the first estimates of the impact of Michigan's TK program on 3rd grade test scores. Using an augmented regression...

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