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Earnings functions when wages and prices vary by location

Black, Dan; Kolesnikova, Natalia; Taylor, Lowell J. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2007

evidence that the return to a college education, relative to a high school education, does indeed vary widely across cities, e … the returns to education are relatively lower in expensive high-amenity locations, and present evidence consistent with … to education as a single parameter. …

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Dependent children and aged parents: funding education and social security in an aging economy

Pecchenino, Rowena A.; Pollard, Patricia S. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2000

tax policies on an aging economy. We find that if the quality of the education system is sufficiently high then shifting … tax resources away from social security and toward education is both growth and welfare enhancing. …

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Nonlinear hedonics and the search for school district quality

Chiodo, Abbigail; Hernández-Murillo, Rubén; Owyang, … - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2005

A school’s quality is often inferred from the premium a parent must pay to buy a house associated with a better school. Isolating this effect, however, is difficult because better schools also tend to be located in nicer neighborhoods and, therefore, cost more for reasons other than school...

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Inefficient education spending in public school districts: a case for consolidation

Garrett, Thomas A.; Marvin E. Dodson, III - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2003

This paper estimates scale economies for Arkansas school districts. Large economies of scale exist in teacher salary and supply costs, as well as total costs. Our results suggest that districts, especially rural districts, would experience measurable cost-savings from consolidation. We simulate...

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Out-of-school suspensions and parental involvement in children’s education

Canon, Maria E. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2011

children’s education. The use of out-of- school suspensions is the novelty of this paper. Out-of-school suspensions are chosen …—that is, out-of-school suspensions do not affect parental involvement in children’s education. …

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Why do education vouchers fail at the ballot box?

Bearse, Peter; Cardak, Buly A.; Glomm, Gerhard; … - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2011

We compare a uniform voucher regime against the status quo mix of public and private education, focusing on the …

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As easy as PIE: productivity, innovation and education

Poole, William - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2002

Presentation to the Annual Technology Transfer Showcase for the University of Missouri System, St. Louis - April 25, 2002

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The critical role of economic education in the conduct of monetary policy

Poole, William - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2000

Presentation at the Hawaii Council on Economic Education Annual Meeting, Honolulu - April 25, 2000 …

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Improving productivity in higher education

Poole, William - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2005

Presentation at Webster University, St. Louis, Mo., April 07, 2005

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Richer but more unequal? nutrition and caste gaps

Boo, Florencia Lopez; Canon, Maria E. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2012

This paper explores children's cognitive outcomes using novel panel data from India for children 6 months through 8 years. For the first time in a developing country, this allow us to estimate a value-added model of cognitive development at a very young age. We look at the nutrition-cognition...

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