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Diversity in Schools : Immigrants and the Educational Performance of U.S. Born Students

Figlio, David N.; Giuliano, Paola; Marchingiglio, Riccardo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection … into schools, and find that the presence of immigrant students has a positive effect on the academic achievement of US … negatively the performance of affluent US-born students, who typically show a higher academic achievement compared to immigrant …

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The Power of the Pill : Oral Contraceptives and Women's Career and Marriage Decisions

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2000

The fraction of U.S. college graduate women entering professional programs increased substantially around 1970 and the age at first marriage among all U.S. college graduate women soared just after 1972. We explore the relationship between these two changes and how each was shaped by the...

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Extending the Race between Education and Technology

Autor, David H.; Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2020

The race between education and technology provides a canonical framework that does an excellent job of explaining U.S. wage structure changes across the twentieth century. The framework involves secular increases in the demand for more-educated workers from skill-biased technological change,...

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Long-run Trends in the U.S. SES-Achievement Gap

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2020

Rising inequality in the United States has raised concerns about potentially widening gaps in educational achievement by socio-economic status (SES). Using assessments from LTT-NAEP, Main-NAEP, TIMSS, and PISA that are psychometrically linked over time, we trace trends in achievement for U.S....

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The Family Origin of the Math Gender Gap is a White Affluent Phenomenon

Dossi, Gaia; Figlio, David N.; Giuliano, Paola; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Previous research has shown that norms around the role of women in society could help explain the gender gap in mathematics, and that these norms could be transmitted within the family. Using data from the Florida Department of Education combined with birth certificates we uncover important...

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Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young Professionals in the Corporate and Financial Sectors

Bertrand, Marianne; Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2009

This paper assesses the relative importance of various explanations for the gender gap in career outcomes for highly-educated workers in the U.S. corporate and financial sectors. The careers of MBAs, who graduated between 1990 and 2006 from a top U.S. business school, are studied to understand...

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The Race between Education and Technology : The Evolution of U.S. Educational Wage Differentials, 1890 to 2005

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2007

U.S. educational and occupational wage differentials were exceptionally high at the dawn of the twentieth century and then decreased in several stages over the next eight decades. But starting in the early 1980s the labor market premium to skill rose sharply and by 2005 the college wage premium...

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Sibling Spillovers

Black, Sandra E. - 2017

It is notoriously difficult to identify peer effects within the family, because of the common shocks and reflection problems. We make use of a novel identification strategy and unique data in order to gain some purchase on this problem. We employ data from the universe of children born in...

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The For-Profit Postsecondary School Sector : Nimble Critters or Agile Predators?

Deming, David J.; Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2011

Private for-profit institutions have been the fastest growing part of the U.S. higher education sector. For-profit enrollment increased from 0.2 percent to 9.1 percent of total enrollment in degree-granting schools from 1970 to 2009, and for-profit institutions account for the majority of...

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