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discounted values of these responses to permanent income. Our estimates imply that parents pass on between 2 and 3 cents out of …We examine how much of an extra dollar of parental lifetime resources will ultimately be passed on to adult children in … rates and age specific estimates of the response of transfers and wealth to permanent income to compute the expected present …
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two separate occupation-based skill measures and find that these measures are associated with ASD incidence among children …
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Uniform use in public schools is rising, but we know little about how they affect students. Using a unique dataset from …
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Study (NPSAS), and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). We show that this treatment of assets provides an implicit … subsidy worth thousands of dollars annually to students from families with above-median incomes. White students receive larger … subsidies relative to Black students and Hispanic students with similar family incomes, and this gap in subsidies is associated …
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This paper examines the impact of public health insurance expansions through both Medicaid and SCHIP on children … time and across ages in children's health insurance eligibility. Using this approach, we find that test scores in reading …, but not math, increased for those children affected at birth by increased health insurance eligibility. A 50 percentage …
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widespread rhetoric about the democratization' of higher education that came with this large pool of students, there is little …
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Several recent studies use the schooling and wage variation between monozygotic twins to estimate the return to schooling. In this paper, we summarize the results from this literature, and we examine the implications of endogenous determination of which twin goes to school longer and of...
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In an important and provocative paper, `Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings?', Angrist and Krueger use quarter of birth as an instrument for educational attainment in wage equations. To support a causal interpretation of their estimates, they argue that compulsory...
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The study presented here uses data from the NORC General Social Surveys to explore the effects of measurable school characteristics on student achievement. What separates this study from many others is the use of aggregate data on older cohorts, usually associated with research on the influence...
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The vast literature on human capital and earnings assumes that individuals know in advance that they will complete a particular program of schooling. This paper treats education as a sequential choice that is made under uncertainty. A simple two period structural model is used to explore the...
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