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The effect of school finance reform on population heterogeneity
Aaronson, Daniel - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 1998
This paper tests whether state school finance reform alters neighborhood income homogeneity. One implication of the … that school finance has a significant effect on school district income sorting, especially among low income communities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419876
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Pay for percentile
Barlevy, Gadi; Neal, Derek - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2009
We propose an incentive pay scheme for educators that links educator compensation to the ranks of their students within … optimal levels of effort to all students. Because this scheme employs only ordinal information, our scheme allows education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008636092
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The mis-measurement of permanent earnings: new evidence from Social Security earnings data
Mazumder, Bhashkar - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2001
1984, 1990 and 1996 Surveys of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to the Social Security Administration's Summary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005520003
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The growing importance of family and community: an analysis of changes in the sibling correlation in earnings
Levine, David I.; Mazumder, Bhashkar - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2003
This study presents evidence that the correlation in brothers’ earnings has risen in recent decades. We use two distinct cohorts of young men from the National Longitudinal Surveys and estimate that the correlation in earnings between brothers rose from 0.26 to 0.45. This suggests that family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005520031