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Historical Perspectives on Racial Differences in Schooling in the United States

Collins, William J. - 2003

African-Americans entered the post-Civil War era with extremely low levels of exposure to schooling. Relying primarily on micro-level census data, we describe racial differences in literacy rates, school attendance, years of educational attainment, age-in-grade distributions, spending per pupil,...

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The Long-Run Spillover Effects of Pollution : How Exposure to Lead Affects Everyone in the Classroom

Gazze, Ludovica; Persico, Claudia; Spirovska, Sandra - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

on preschool blood lead levels (BLLs) matched to education data for all students in North Carolina public schools. We …

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Investment in U.S. Education and Training

Mincer, Jacob - 1994

The current high rates of return to human capital stimulate a supply response via increased investments in education … differential in wages. This paper reports estimates of: the responses of investments in post-secondary education, measured by …

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Does School Quality Matter? Returns to Education and the Characteristics of Public Schools in the United States

Card, David - 1990

, and the relative pay of teachers -- on the rate of return to education for men born between 1920 and 1949. Using earnings … education in the region where they currently reside, and other factors. A decrease in the pupil-teacher ratio from 30 to 25, for … example, is associated with a 0.4 percentage point increase in the rate of return to education. The estimated relationship …

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Suffrage, Schooling, and Sorting in the Post-Bellum U.S. South

Naidu, Suresh - 2012

This paper estimates the political and economic effects of the 19th century disenfranchisement of black citizens in the U.S. South. Using adjacent county-pairs that straddle state boundaries, I examine the effect of voting restrictions on political competition, public goods, and factor markets....

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