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Home computers and educational outcomes: evidence from the NLSY97 and CPS

Beltran, Daniel O.; Das, Kuntal K.; Fairlie, Robert W. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2008

Although computers are universal in the classroom, nearly twenty million children in the United States do not have computers in their homes. Surprisingly, only a few previous studies explore the role of home computers in the educational process. Home computers might be very useful for completing...

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Minimum wage effects on employment and school enrollment: reply to Evans and Turner

Neumark, David; Wascher, William L. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 1996

In earlier work, we presented results suggesting that minimum wage increases have important consequences for both the employment opportunities of youths and their decision to enroll in school. In this paper, we show that the recent claim made by William Evans and Mark Turner that our results are...

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Education's role in China's structural transformation

Lee, Soohyung; Malin, Benjamin A. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2009

We explore education's role in improving the allocation of labor between China's agricultural and nonagricultural … find that education's impact on labor reallocation between sectors accounts for about 9 percent of Chinese growth, whereas … large productivity gaps across sectors and returns to education are greater in higher-productivity sectors, education policy …

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The role of specific subjects in education production functions: evidence from morning classes in Chicago public high schools

Bricker, Jesse; Cortes, Kalena; Rohlfs, Chris - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2010

Absences in Chicago Public High Schools are 3-7 days per year higher in first period than at other times of the day. This study exploits this empirical regularity and the essentially random variation between students in the ordering of classes over the day to measure how the returns to classroom...

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Post Brown vs. the Board of Education: the effects of the end of court-ordered desegregation

Lutz, Byron F. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2005

In the early 1990s, nearly forty years after Brown v. the Board of Education, three Supreme Court decisions …

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Empirical evidence on human capital spillovers

Rudd, Jeremy - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2000

This paper examines whether the average level of human capital in a region affects the earnings of an individual residing in that region in a manner that is external to the individual's own human capital. I find little evidence of an external effect of human capital, which suggests that human...

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The effects of two-year college on the labor market and schooling experiences of young men

Surette, Brian J. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 1997

This paper uses the NLSY to examine (1) the returns to two-year college, (2) whether attendance at a two-year college helps students to transfer to four-year college, and (3) whether reducing tuition would alter attendance enough to affect labor outcomes. I find that the returns to a year of...

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