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Neighborhoods Matter : Assessing the Evidence for Place Effects

Chyn, Eric; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

How does one's place of residence affect individual behavior and long-run outcomes? Understanding neighborhood and place effects has been a leading question for social scientists during the past half-century. Recent empirical studies using experimental and quasi-experimental research designs...

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Education and Income in the Early 20th Century : Evidence from the Prairies

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1999

We present the first estimates of the returns to years of schooling before 1940 using a large sample of men and women, employed in a variety of sectors and occupations, from the Iowa State Census of 1915. We find that the returns to a year of high school, and to a year of college, were...

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The Returns to Skill in the United States across the Twentieth Century

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1999

first to inquire of wage and salary income and education. We address what the returns to skill were prior to 1940 and piece …

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The Origins of Technology-Skill Complementarity

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1996

Current concern with relationships among particular technologies, capital, and the wage structure motivates this study of the origins of technology-skill complementarity in manufacturing. We offer evidence of the existence of technology-skill and capital-skill (relative) complementarities from...

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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

, students, and programs in the for-profit higher education sector, its phenomenal recent growth, and its relationship to the … federal and state governments. Using the 2004 to 2009 Beginning Postsecondary Students (BPS) longitudinal survey we assess … outcomes of a recent cohort of first-time undergraduates who attended for-profits relative to comparable students who attended …

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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

following MBA completion. The presence of children is the main contributor to the lesser job experience, greater career …

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The Homecoming of American College Women : The Reversal of the College Gender Gap

Goldin, Claudia; Kuziemko, Ilyana; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2006

Women are currently the majority of U.S. college students and of those receiving a bachelor's degree, but were 39 … first marriage for college graduate women rose by 2.5 years in the 1970s, allowing them to be more serious students. 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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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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The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children : New Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment

Chetty, Raj - 2015

housing vouchers to move to lower-poverty neighborhoods. We present new evidence on the impacts of MTO on children's long … college attendance rates and earnings for children who were young (below age 13) when their families moved. These children … also live in better neighborhoods themselves as adults and are less likely to become single parents. The treatment effects …

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