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Shaping Inequality and Intergenerational Persistence of Poverty : Free College or Better Schools
Krueger, Dirk; Ludwig, Alexander; Popova, Irina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We evaluate the aggregate, distributional and welfare consequences of alternative government education policies to … general equilibrium overlapping generations model with intergenerational linkages, a higher education choice as well as a … disciplined by US household survey data on income, wealth, education and time use. Studying the transitions induced by unexpected …
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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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The Political Economy of Intergenerational Income Mobility
Ichino, Andrea - 2010
The intergenerational elasticity of income is generally considered one of the best summary measures of the degree to which a society gives equal opportunity of success to all its members, irrespective of their family background. We present a parsimonious political economy model and show how the...
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On the Spatial Determinants of Educational Access
Agostinelli, Francesco; Luflade, Margaux; Martellini, Paolo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
families who currently invest in their children's education by residing in expensive neighborhoods. Under both policies, higher …
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The Unintended Consequences of Test-Based Remediation
Figlio, David N.; Özek, Umut - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
School systems around the world use achievement tests to assign students to schools, classes, and instructional resources, including remediation. Using a regression discontinuity design, we study a Florida policy that places middle school students who score below a proficiency cutoff into...
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Public Education and Intergenerational Housing Wealth Effects
Gilraine, Michael; Graham, James; Zheng, Angela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
While rising house prices benefit existing homeowners, we document a new channel through which price shocks have intergenerational wealth effects. Using panel data from school zones within a large U.S. school district, we find that higher local house prices lead to improvements in local school...
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Diversifying Society's Leaders? The Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges
Chetty, Raj; Deming, David J.; Friedman, John N - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Leadership positions in the U.S. are disproportionately held by graduates of a few highly selective private colleges. Could such colleges -- which currently have many more students from high-income families than low-income families -- increase the socioeconomic diversity of America's leaders by...
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Driving Towards Integration : Early Childhood Education Implications of Extending Driving Privileges to Undocumented Immigrants
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Deza, Monica; Kostandini, Genti - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
early childhood education (ECE). Using individual-level data from the ACS, we find that granting driving privileges to …
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Balancing Federalism : The Impact of Decentralizing School Accountability
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Saenz-Armstrong, Patricia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Education policy, while primarily the responsibility of the state governments, involves complicated decision making at …
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Vote Early and Vote Often? Detecting Electoral Fraud from the Timing of 19th Century Elections
Ferlenga, Francesco; Knight, Brian G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper develops a new approach to detecting electoral fraud. Our context involves repeaters, individuals voting in … difficulties of voting in multiple states on the same day, we exploit the staggered introduction of holding federal elections on …
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