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robust evaluation methodology and administrative education data covering 15 cohorts of children, we measure the impact of …
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This paper presents new evidence that increases in college enrollment lead to a decline in the average quality of college graduates between 1960 and 2000, resulting in a decrease of 6 percentage points in the college premium. We show that although a standard demand and supply framework can...
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This paper presents new evidence that increases in college enrollment lead to a decline in the average quality of college graduates between 1960 and 2000, resulting in a decrease of 8 percentage points in the college premium. The standard demand and supply framework (Katz and Murphy, 1992, Card...
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We study the impact on children of increasing maternity leave benefits using a reform that increased paid and unpaid … 30. The effect is especially large for children of those mothers who, prior to the reform, would take very low levels of … unpaid leave. -- maternity leave ; children’s outcomes …
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particularly important. -- Family background ; intergenerational mobility ; parents ; siblings ; long-run income … specific knowledge of what it is about family background that really matters. Studies on intergenerational income mobility show … that parental income matters to some extent, but they also show that more than half of the family background and community …
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