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Neighborhoods and Academic Achievement : Results from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment

Sanbonmatsu, Lisa - 2006

Families originally living in public housing were assigned housing vouchers by lottery, encouraging moves to neighborhoods with lower poverty rates. Although we had hypothesized that reading and math test scores would be higher among children in families offered vouchers (with larger effects...

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Optimal Income, Education, and Bequest Taxes in an Intergenerational Model

Stantcheva, Stefanie - 2015

This paper considers dynamic optimal income, education, and bequest taxes in a Barro-Becker dynastic setup. Parents can transfer resources to their children in two ways: First, through education investments, which have heterogeneous and stochastic returns for children, and, second, through...

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Municipal Housekeeping : The Impact of Women's Suffrage on Public Education

Carruthers, Celeste K. - 2015

Gains in 20th century real wages and reductions in the black-white wage gap have been linked to the mid-century ascent of school quality. With a new dataset uniquely appropriate to identifying the impact of female voter enfranchisement on education spending, we attribute up to one-third of the...

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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Inequality in China

Heckman, James J. - 2012

China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled … the past decade, China has made substantial investments in producing it. The egalitarian access to medium skilled …. China's growth will be fostered by expanding access to all levels of education, reducing impediments to labor mobility, and …

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English Language Requirement and Educational Inequality : Evidence from 16 Million College Applicants in China

Li, Hongbin; Meng, Lingsheng; Mu, Kai; Wang, Shaoda - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

the staggered rollout of English listening tests in China's high-stakes National College Entrance Exam (NCEE) affected the …

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Does Aid Matter? Measuring the Effect of Student Aid on College Attendance and Completion

Dynarski, Susan M. - 1999

Does student aid increase college attendance or simply subsidize costs for infra-marginal students? Settling the question empirically is a challenge, because aid is correlated with many characteristics that influence educational investment decisions. A shift in financial aid policy that affects...

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The Dynamics of Educational Attainment for Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites

Cameron, Stephen V. - 1999

This paper estimates a dynamic model of schooling attainment to investigate the sources of discrepancy by race and ethnicity in college attendance. When the returns to college education rose, college enrollment of whites responded much more quickly than that of minorities. Parental income is a...

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A Model of Multiple Districts and Private Schools : The Role of Mobility, Targeting, and Private School Vouchers

Nechyba, Thomas J. - 1999

This paper presents a multi-district model that can be calibrated to data reflecting housing market conditions, public school finance mechanisms and private school markets. Simulations are undertaken to investigate the impact of private school vouchers. Households that differ in both their...

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Mortality, Education, Income, and Inequality among American Cohorts

Deaton, Angus - 1999

People whose family income was less than $5,000 in 1980 could expect to live about 25 percent fewer years than people whose family income was greater than $50,000. We explore this finding using both individual data and a panel of aggregate birth cohorts observed from 1975 to 1995. We assume that...

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Educational Inequality*

Blanden, Jo; Doepke, Matthias; Stuhler, Jan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This chapter provides new evidence on educational inequality and reviews the literature on the causes and consequences of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps between children from different socio-economic backgrounds, show how patterns of educational inequality vary across...

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