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"The authors examine the distributional implications of selective compliance in sample surveys, whereby households with different incomes are not equally likely to participate. They discuss poverty and inequality measurement implications for monotonically decreasing and inverted-U...
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distribution saw larger increases in wives' employment, annual work hours, and earnings than downwardly mobile married couples …. Less-educated wives' earnings gains were critically important to their families' advancement. Moreeducated wives also … helped their families move up, but their contributions were surpassed by the earnings gains of their husbands. …
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Affordable higher education is, and has been, a key element of social policy in the United States with broad bipartisan support. Financial aid has substantially increased the number of people who complete universitygenerally thought to be a good thing. We show, however, that making education...
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