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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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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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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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widespread rhetoric about the democratization' of higher education that came with this large pool of students, there is little …
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-experimental variation in state spending. Unlike previous measures, we find that high-income-modest-ability students especially benefit since … students. This implies that the net benefits to students who do not attend public colleges is negative. However, they miss … private colleges admit, what prices they charge, and the number of students who enroll in any college. We show that capturing …
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We extend the control function approach of Altonji and Mansfield (2018) to allow for multiple group levels and complementarities. Our analysis provides a foundation for causal interpretation of multilevel mixed effects models in the presence of sorting. In our empirical application, we obtain...
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We estimate the labor market return to an MBA, a JD, and master's in engineering, nursing, education, psychology and social work, and thirteen other graduate degrees. To control for heterogeneity in preferences and ability, we use fixed effects for combinations of field-specific undergraduate...
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stayers by luring the best students to other schools. This framework results in a simple formula showing that the "cream …-skimming" effect is increasing in the degree of heterogeneity within schools, the school choice takeup rate of strong students relative … to weak students, and the importance of peers. We use the formula to investigate the effects of a voucher program on the …
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Several previous studies have relied on religious affiliation and the proximity to Catholic schools as exogenous sources of variation for identifying the effect of Catholic schooling on a wide variety of outcomes. Using three separate approaches, we examine the validity of these instrumental...
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The effects of the G.I. Bill on collegiate attainment may have differed for black and white Americans owing to differential returns to education and differences in opportunities at colleges and universities, with men in the South facing explicitly segregated colleges. The empirical evidence...
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