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Human Capital by Gender : a G20 and Selected Geographies Perspective
Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Liu, Gang; Managi, Shunsuke - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper aims to identify the sources of human capital growth for the observation period 1990-2020 by region, gender … Institute of Kyushu University) report. It focuses on five important aggregates by gender: Asia, Africa, Latin America, G20, and … capital have grown over time in almost all countries. Attention must be paid to what has happened to the world's gender …
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The Effects of Advanced Degrees on the Wage Rates, Hours, Earnings and Job Satisfaction of Women and Men
Altonji, Joseph G.; Humphries, John Eric; Zhong, Ling - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
degrees. We show annual earnings and hours worked while enrolled in graduate school vary a lot by gender and degree. Finally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334324
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New Schools and New Classmates : The Disruption and Peer Group Effects of School Reassignment
Hill, Darryl V.; Hughes, Rodney P.; Lenard, Matthew A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Policy makers periodically consider using student assignment policies to improve educational outcomes by altering the socio-economic and academic skill composition of schools. We exploit the quasi-random reassignment of students across schools in the Wake County Public School System to estimate...
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Youth Labor Force Participation, Education, and Human Capital in Asia, by Gender, 1990-2019
Fraumeni, Barbara M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
paper with an emphasis on differences by gender and differences across regions. Some comparisons between China and India and … gender in any analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337769
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Inventor Gender and Patent Undercitation : Evidence from Causal Text Estimation
Hochberg, Yael V.; Kakhbod, Ali; Li, Peiyao; Sachdeva, Kunal - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Implementing a state-of-the-art machine learning technique for causal identification from text data (C-TEXT), we document that patents authored by female inventors are under-cited relative to those authored by males. Relative to what the same patent would be predicted to receive had the lead...
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Schooling and Intergenerational Mobility : Consequences of Expanding Higher Education Institutions
Katzkowicz, Noemí; Lavy, Victor; Querejeta, Martina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Poor post-secondary education infrastructure and opportunities partly explain the low higher education rates in developing countries. This paper estimates the effect of a program that improved post-secondary education infrastructure by building many university campuses across Uruguay. Leveraging...
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The Long-Term Distributional Impacts of a Full-Year Interleaving Math Program in Nigeria
Haar, Lotte van der; Gray-Lobe, Guthrie; Kremer, Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This study reports the findings from a year-long randomized evaluation assessing the impact of assigning 62 classrooms in Nigeria to receive either blocked or interleaved math problem sets. Blocked practice sessions focused on a single skill at a time. Interleaved problem sets alternated between...
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The Effect of Early Childhood Programs on Third-Grade Test Scores : Evidence from Transitional Kindergarten in Michigan
Berne, Jordan S.; Jacob, Brian Aaron; Musaddiq, Tareena; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Transitional Kindergarten (TK) is a relatively recent entrant into the U.S. early education landscape, combining features of public pre-K and regular kindergarten. We provide the first estimates of the impact of Michigan's TK program on 3rd grade test scores. Using an augmented regression...
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Dealing with Imperfect Randomization : Inference for the HighScope Perry Preschool Program
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Shaikh, Azeem M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper considers the problem of making inferences about the effects of a program on multiple outcomes when the assignment of treatment status is imperfectly randomized. By imperfect randomization we mean that treatment status is reassigned after an initial randomization on the basis of...
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The Effects of Comprehensive Educator Evaluation and Pay Reform on Achievement
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Luo, Jin; Morgan, Andrew J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
A fundamental question for education policy is whether outcomes-based accountability including comprehensive educator evaluations and a closer relationship between effectiveness and compensation improves the quality of instruction and raises achievement. We use synthetic control methods to study...
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