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Why do wealthy parents have wealthy children?
Fagereng, Andreas; Mogstad, Magne; Rønning, Marte - 2018
Strong intergenerational associations in wealth have fueled a longstanding debate over why children of wealthy parents …'s accumulation of wealth and investor behavior as adults, even when removing the genetic connection between children and the parents … tend to be well off themselves. We investigate the role of family background in determining children's wealth accumulation …
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Aligning student, parent, and teacher incentives : evidence from Houston public schools
Fryer, Roland G. <Jr.> - 2012
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Are high quality schools enough to close the achievement gap? : Evidence from a social experiment in Harlem
Dobbie, Will; Fryer, Roland G. <Jr.> - 2009
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Does the choice of reference levels of education matter in the ORU earnings equation?
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - In: Economics of education review 29 (2010) 6, pp. 1076-1085
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Charter schools and labor market outcomes
Dobbie, Will; Fryer, Roland G. <Jr.> - 2016
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Charter schools and labor market outcomes
Dobbie, Will; Fryer, Roland G. <Jr.> - 2016
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Are high-quality schools enough to increase achievement among the poor? : evidence from the Harlem children's zone
Dobbie, Will; Fryer, Roland G. <Jr.> - In: American economic journal : a journal of the American … 3 (2011) 3, pp. 158-187
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Charter schools and labor market outcomes
Dobbie, Will; Fryer, Roland G. <Jr.> - In: Journal of labor economics 38 (2020) 4, pp. 915-957
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ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009
This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller...
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Field of study, earnings, and self-selection
Kirkebøen, Lars J.; Leuven, Edwin; Mogstad, Magne - 2014 - This version: December 2014
Why do individuals choose different types of post-secondary education, and what are the labor market consequences of those choices? We show that answering these questions is difficult because individuals choose between several unordered alternatives. Even with a valid instrument for every type...
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