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Address to the New College class of 2010

Dudley, William - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2010

Remarks at the New College of Florida 44th Annual Commencement, Sarasota, Florida.

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Educational assortative mating and household income inequality

Mogstad, Magne; Zafar, Basit; Eika, Lasse - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2014

evidence of positive assortative mating at all levels of education in both countries. However, the time trends vary by the … level of education: Among college graduates, assortative mating has been declining over time, whereas individuals with a low … level of education are increasingly sorting into internally homogenous marriages. When looking within the group of college …

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Incentives and responses under No Child Left Behind: credible threats and the role of competition

Chakrabarti, Rajashri - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2011

The No Child Left Behind law mandated the institution of adequate yearly progress (AYP) objectives, on which schools are assigned a pass or fail. Fail status is associated with negative publicity and often sanctions. In this paper, I study the incentives and responses of schools that failed AYP...

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Using regional variation to explain widening earnings differentials by educational attainment

Brauer, David A. - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 1995

During the 1980s and early 1990s the earnings gap between individuals with a college education and those with no more … timing of this widening. In this paper we develop indices, based on industry of employment, of technological advancement and …

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Education, political instability, and growth

Kahn, James A. - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 1997

Empirical evidence suggests a positive association between income levels and growth rates on the one hand, and political stability and educational attainment on the other. This paper develops a simple finite--horizon overlapping growth model that in the absence of institutions for precommitment...

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Is economics coursework, or majoring in economics, associated with different civic behaviors?

Allgood, Sam; Bosshardt, William; Klaauw, Wilbert van der; … - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2010

Studies regularly link levels of educational attainment to civic behavior and attitudes, but only a few investigate the role played by specific coursework. Using data collected from students who attended one of four public universities in our study, we investigate the relationship between...

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How do college students form expectations?

Zafar, Basit - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2009

expectations formation is crucial for education policy recommendations. This paper focuses on how college students form …

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Language, learning, and location

John, Andrew; Yi, Kei-Mu - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 1997

Language is a fundamental tool for communication of ideas between people, and so is an essential input into production and trade. In general, a society will possess more production and consumption opportunities when all its members share a common language. Neighboring societies and communities...

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U.S. wages in general equilibrium: the effects of prices, technology and factor supplies, 1963-1991

Harrigan, James; Balaban, Rita A. - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 1999

increase the return to education. …

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College major choice and the gender gap

Zafar, Basit - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2009

Males and females are markedly different in their choice of college major. Two main reasons have been suggested for the gender gap: differences in innate abilities and differences in preferences. This paper addresses the question of how college majors are chosen, focusing on the underlying...

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