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Student abilities during the expansion of US education
Hendricks, Lutz; Schoellman, Todd - In: Journal of Monetary Economics 63 (2014) C, pp. 19-36
The US experienced two dramatic changes in the structure of education in a 50 year period. The first was a large …-college-bound students. This paper documents the impact of these two trends on the composition of school groups by ability and the importance …
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Investing in Infants : The Lasting Effects of Cash Transfers to New Families
Barr, Andrew C.; Eggleston, Jonathan; Smith, Alexander A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We provide new evidence that cash transfers following the birth of a first child can have large and long-lasting effects on that child's outcomes. We take advantage of the January 1 birthdate cutoff for U.S. child-related tax benefits, which results in families of otherwise similar children...
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Education and Family Background: Mechanisms and Policies
Björklund, Anders; Salvanes, Kjell G. - In: Handbook of the Economics of Education
' education or with other indicators of their parents' socio-economic status. This topic is central in social science, and there … to researchers. The purpose of this chapter is to summarize and evaluate recent empirical research on education and …
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Social background, education and inequality
Andersen, Torben M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
. It is shown that the impediments for education created by social factors are similar to a market imperfection, and … publicly provided education may lead to a Pareto improvement. Policies affecting the share of skilled release a dynamic …
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Intergenerational Mobility in Educational and Occupational Attainment
Majumder, Rajarshi - In: Margin: The Journal of Applied Economic Research 4 (2010) 4, pp. 463-494
as well. This is manifested as low intergenerational mobility in terms of both education and occupation in developing …
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"Intergenerational Mobility in Latin America"
Behrman, Jere R.; Gaviria, Alejandro; Székely, Miguel - In: ECONOMIA JOURNAL OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN … (2001)
, and that mobility in Latin America is strongly associated with schooling levels and expenditures on education. …
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Education and Socioeconomic Mobility in Post-Communist Countries
Veraschagina, Alina - In: Social Exclusion. Short and Long Term Causes and …
Patterns of intergenerational educational mobility are studied in twelve post-communist countries of Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. No clear trend in educational inheritance emerges over the recent 50 years, covering both the period of socialism and transition to a market economy....
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A tangled tale of training and talent : PhDs in institutional asset management
Chaudhuri, Ranadeb; Ivković, Zoran; Pollet, Joshua M.; … - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 66 (2020) 12, pp. 5623-5647
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Do higher levels of education and skills in an area benefit wider society? : education benefits individuals, but the societal benefits are likely even greater
Winters, John V. - 2015
Formal schooling increases earnings and provides other individual benefits. However, societal benefits of education may … exceed individual benefits. Research finds that increased average education levels in an area are correlated with higher … earnings, even for locals with relatively little education. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduates …
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What determines adult cognitive skills? : influences of pre-school, school, and post-school experiences in Guatemala
Behrman, Jere R.; Hoddinott, John; Maluccio, John A.; … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 23 (2014), pp. 1-32
Most empirical investigations of the effects of cognitive skills assume that they are produced by schooling. Drawing on longitudinal data to estimate production functions for adult verbal and nonverbal cognitive skills, we find that: (1) School attainment has a significant and substantial effect...
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