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Chen, Stacey H. - EconWPA - 2002

between college attendees and high school graduates. This paper copes with selection bias problems and distinguishes permanent …

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College Characteristics and the Wages of Young Women

Daniel, Kermit; Black, Dan; Smith, Jeffery - EconWPA - 1996

Using the rich data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we show that several dimensions of college quality have positive impacts on young women's wages. We find evidence of ability sorting, but controlling for ability, women who attend higher quality colleges earn higher wages. Women...

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College Quality and the Wages of Young Men

Daniel, Kermit; Black, Dan; Smith, Jeffery - EconWPA - 1996

Using the rich data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we show that several dimensions of college quality have substantial positive impacts on young men's wages. This finding is robust to a wide array of alternative specifications. Controlling for ability reveals that sorting of...

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Effect of a School Finance Reform on Housing Stock and Residential Segregation: Evidence from Proposal A in Michigan

Roy, Joydeep - EconWPA - 2004

school choice - and increases the degree of socioeconomic segregation across school districts. A school finance reform can go … a long way in weakening this link. In this paper I study the Michigan school finance reform of 1994 (Proposal A) which … Proposal A has been responsible for increases in housing stock and property values in the lowest spending school districts, and …

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Financial Education and Savings Outcomes in Individual Development Accounts

Clancy, Margaret; Grinstein-Weiss, Michal; Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001

Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) are subsidized savings accounts. Unlike other subsidized savings accounts such as Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) or 401(k) plans, IDAs are targeted to the poor, provide subsidies through matches rather than through tax breaks, and require...

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Schooling and Parental Death

Gertler, Paul; Levine, David I.; Ames, Minnie - EconWPA - 2003

estimate how one human capital investment, school enrollment, is affected by a parent's recent death. We analyze data from 600 …

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Ethnic Diversity and School Funding in Kenya

Miguel, Edward - EconWPA - 2001

unexplored. To address this gap, this paper explores the relationship between ethnic diversity and local primary school funding … associated with sharply lower primary school funding and worse school facilities in western Kenya. The theory examines school …

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What is Left to Residual Claimants? The Empirics of Income Reported by Entrepreneurs and Workers

Poutvaara, Panu; Tuomala, Juha - EconWPA - 2004

Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average income with all but undergraduate level of...

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Redistributing Educational Attainment: Evidence from an Unusual Policy Experiment in India

Roy, Joydeep - EconWPA - 2004

surprisingly, I find no evidence of a positive effect of the reform, even on the poorest income quartiles. Moreover, private school …

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The Academic Review Process: How Can We Make it More Efficient?

Azar, Ofer H. - EconWPA - 2005

Recently many editors try to reduce the turnaround times of academic journals. Shorter turnaround times, however, will induce many additional submissions of low-quality papers, increasing significantly the workload of editors and referees, and the number of rejections prior to publication. I...

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