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Human Capital and Social Capital : The Rise of Secondary Schooling in America, 1910 to 1940
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1998
the center of this belt' was the state of Iowa and we use information from the unique 1915 Iowa State Census to explore … the factors, at both the county and individual levels, that propelled states like Iowa to embrace secondary school … education very early. Iowa's small towns, as well as those across the nation, were the loci of the high school movement. In an …
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Rugged Entrepreneurs : The Geographic and Cultural Contours of New Business Formation
Barrios, John M.; Hochberg, Yael V.; Macciocchi, Daniele - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
How do geographic and historical-cultural factors shape new business formation? Using novel data on new business registrations, we document that 75% of the variation in new business formation is explained by time-invariant county-level factors and examine the extent to which such variation is...
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The Missing Link? Using LinkedIn Data to Measure Race, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Employment Outcomes at Individual Companies
Berry, Alexander; Maloney, Elizabeth M.; Neumark, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Stronger enforcement of discrimination laws can help to reduce disparities in economic outcomes with respect to race, ethnicity, and gender in the United States. However, the data necessary to detect possible discrimination and to act to counter it is not publicly available - in particular, data...
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The Power of Inclusive Labor Force Participation for Mitigating Population Aging : Closing Gaps at the Intersection Between Race/Ethnicity and Gender in the United States
Böheim, René; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; Leoni, Thomas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We develop a dynamic microsimulation model to project the labor force and economic dependency ratios in the United States from 2022 to 2060, taking population projections and the large inequalities between population groups of different race/ethnicity and gender into account. We contrast policy...
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Quantifying the Uncertainty of Imputed Demographic Disparity Estimates : The Dual-Bootstrap
Lu, Benjamin; Wan, Jia; Ouyang, Derek; Goldin, Jacob; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Measuring average differences in an outcome across racial or ethnic groups is a crucial first step for equity assessments, but researchers often lack access to data on individuals' races and ethnicities to calculate them. A common solution is to impute the missing race or ethnicity labels using...
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Education and Income in the Early 20th Century : Evidence from the Prairies
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1999
, employed in a variety of sectors and occupations, from the Iowa State Census of 1915. We find that the returns to a year of … root in America around 1910, even in agricultural areas such as Iowa. Census data for 1940, 1950, and 1960 are used to show …
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The Economics of Open Air Markets
List, John A. - 2009
Despite their current prevalence and historical significance, little is known about the economics of open air markets. This paper uses open air markets as a natural laboratory to provide initial insights into the underlying operation of such markets. Using data on thousands of individual...
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Toward an Understanding of Reference-Dependent Labor Supply : Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment
Andersen, Steffen - 2014
Perhaps the most powerful form of framing arises through reference dependence, wherein choices are made recognizing the starting point or a goal. In labor economics, for example, a form of reference dependence, income targeting, has been argued to represent a serious challenge to traditional...
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Does the Invisible Hand Efficiently Guide Entry and Exit? Evidence from a Vegetable Market Experiment in India
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Fischer, Greg; Karlan, Dean; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
What accounts for the ubiquity of small vendors operating side-by-side in the urban centers of developing countries? Why don't competitive forces drive some vendors out of the market? We ran an experiment in Kolkata vegetable markets in which we induced (via subsidizing) some vendors to sell...
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Trends in World Inequality in Life Span Since 1970
Edwards, Ryan D. - 2010
Previous research has revealed much global convergence over the past several decades in life expectancy at birth and in infant mortality, which are closely linked. But trends in the variance of length of life, and in the variance of length of adult life in particular, are less well understood. I...
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