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New Schools and New Classmates : The Disruption and Peer Group Effects of School Reassignment
Hill, Darryl V.; Hughes, Rodney P.; Lenard, Matthew A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Policy makers periodically consider using student assignment policies to improve educational outcomes by altering the socio-economic and academic skill composition of schools. We exploit the quasi-random reassignment of students across schools in the Wake County Public School System to estimate...
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Educational Inequality*
Blanden, Jo; Doepke, Matthias; Stuhler, Jan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This chapter provides new evidence on educational inequality and reviews the literature on the causes and consequences of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps between children from different socio-economic backgrounds, show how patterns of educational inequality vary across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191073
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Is the U.S. Losing Its Preeminence in Higher Education?
Adams, James D. - 2009
The expansion of U.S. universities after World War II gained from the arrival of immigrant scientists and graduate … convergence in world science and engineering and a falling U.S. share. But the slowdown of U.S. publication rates in the late 1990 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463416
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The Changing Structure of Wages in the US and Germany : What Explains the Differences?
Beaudry, Paul - 2000
Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while … files from the PSID (US) and the GSOEP (Germany), we demonstrate how factor movements within these countries are associated … capital over the 1979-96 period, while Germany accumulated factors in a more balanced manner …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471064
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Does Education Improve Citizenship? Evidence from the U.S. and the U.K
Milligan, Kevin - 2003
Many economists and educators of diverse political beliefs favor public support for education on the premise that a more educated electorate enhances the quality of democracy. While some earlier studies document an association between schooling and citizenship, little attempt has been made to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469116
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Returns to Different Postsecondary Investments : Institution Type, Academic Programs, and Credentials
Lovenheim, Michael F.; Smith, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
, postsecondary education in the United States and around the world is highly differentiated, with a variety of options that differ by … education in the U.S. and around the world, followed by a model that helps clarify and articulate the assumptions employed by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191028
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The Human Capital Century and American Leadership : Virtues of the Past
Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2001
American system of education was shaped by New World endowments and Republican ideology and was characterized by virtues …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470485
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Indirect Effects of Access to Finance
Cai, Jing; Szeidl, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We created experimental variation across local markets in China in the share of firms having access to a new loan product, to measure the direct and indirect effects of access to finance. We find that: (1) Access to finance had a large positive direct effect on the performance of treated firms....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172113
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Investing in the Next Generation : The Long-Run Impacts of a Liquidity Shock
Agte, Patrick; Bernhardt, Arielle; Field, Erica Marie; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
How do poor entrepreneurs trade off investments in business enterprises versus children's human capital, and how do these choices influence intergenerational socio-economic mobility? To examine this, we exploit experimental variation in household income resulting from a one-time relaxation of...
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The Mystery of Human Capital as Engine of Growth, or Why the US Became the Economic Superpower in the 20th Century
Ehrlich, Isaac - 2007
This paper offers a thesis as to why the US overtook the UK and other European countries in the 20th century in both aggregate and per-capita GDP, as a case study of recent models of endogenous growth where human capital is the "engine of growth". The conjecture is that the ascendancy of the US...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465788