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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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-ability college students. The Longhorn Opportunity Scholars (LOS) and Century Scholars (CS) programs recruited at specified low-income … combined with adequate supports and financial aid can substantially increase enrollment of low-income students in higher …We study two interventions in Texas that were designed to overcome multiple hurdles faced by low-income, high …
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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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transfers are only weakly related to income differences. Richer siblings give more to parents and receive less. Among parents … in the cross section or in the analysis using siblings that parental income or wealth raises time transfers from children …We use the 1988 PSID to study the effects of income and wealth on transfers of money and time between individuals and …
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The representation of a large number of students born outside the United States among the ranks of doctorate recipients … market for highly-trained workers in science and engineering in the last quarter century. Students from outside the U …, engineering and economics the representation of foreign students among PhD recipients is yet more striking; among doctorate …
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wage rates, employment, and hours; labor market shocks; spouse characteristics and shocks; nonlabor income shocks; and … marital histories to the age profiles of the variance of family income per adult equivalent. The decompositions are based upon …, fertility, and nonlabor income. We find that education and employment heterogeneity are key sources of the rise in the variance …
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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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to the role of earnings growth and variability. Using linked administrative data from Texas on public K-12 students …
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As the workforce has become more educated, educational decisions are no longer just about whether to acquire more, but rather what type of education to pursue. In college, individuals somewhat specialize through their choice of college major. Further specialization occurs in graduate school....
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