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The Long Reach of Education : Early Retirement
Venti, Steven - 2014
relationship between education and two routes to early retirement - the receipt of Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) and … the early claiming of Social Security retirement benefits - to illustrate the long-lasting influence of education. We find … focus on four critical "pathways" through which education may indirectly influence early retirement - health, employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457926
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A Bridge to Graduation : Post-Secondary Effects of an Alternative Pathway for Students Who Fail High School Exit Exams
Lincove, Jane Arnold; Mata, Catherine; Cortes, Kalena E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
High school exit exams are meant to standardize the quality of public high schools and to ensure that students graduate with a set of basic skills and knowledge. Evidence suggests that a common perverse effect of exit exams is an increase in dropout for students who have difficulty passing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938711
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Can Pollution Cause Poverty? The Effects of Pollution on Educational, Health and Economic Outcomes
Persico, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Although pollution is widespread, there is little evidence about how it might harm children's long run outcomes. Using the detailed, geocoded data that follows national representative cohorts of children born to the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth respondents over time, I compare siblings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435121
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The Family Origin of the Math Gender Gap is a White Affluent Phenomenon
Dossi, Gaia; Figlio, David N.; Giuliano, Paola; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Previous research has shown that norms around the role of women in society could help explain the gender gap in … combined with birth certificates we uncover important heterogeneity in the transmission of gender biases within the family. We … find that gender role norms can explain the lower performance of girls in mathematics only in relatively affluent White …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482544
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Coming Apart? Cultural Distances in the United States over Time
Bertrand, Marianne - 2018
We analyze temporal trends in cultural distance between groups in the US defined by income, education, gender, race … based on his or her (i) media consumption, (ii) consumer behavior, (iii) time use, or (iv) social attitudes. Gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012452950
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Changes in Workplace Segregation in the United States between 1990 and 2000 : Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
Hellerstein, Judith - 2007
We present evidence on changes in workplace segregation by education, race, ethnicity, and sex, from 1990 to 2000. The evidence indicates that racial and ethnic segregation at the workplace level remained quite pervasive in 2000. At the same time, there was fairly substantial segregation by...
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The Effects of Career and Technical Education : Evidence from the Connecticut Technical High School System
Brunner, Eric J.; Dougherty, Shaun; Ross, Stephen L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We examine the effect of attending stand-alone technical high schools on student short- and long-term outcomes using a regression discontinuity design. Male students are 10 percentage points more likely to graduate from high school and have half a semester less time enrolled in college, although...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533339
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Migration to the US and Marital Mobility
Christopoulou, Rebekka - 2013
We combine survey data on British and German immigrants in the US with data on natives in Britain and Germany to estimate the causal effect of migration on educational mobility through cross-national marriage. To control for selective mating, we instrument educational attainment using government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459167
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Changes in the Distribution of Economic Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic : Evidence from Nationally Representative Consumption Data
Meyer, Bruce D.; Murphy, Connacher; Sullivan, James X. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We examine the distribution of household consumption, income and savings from 2019 through the end of 2020 using the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) and other data. This is the first work to study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on economic well-being using nationally representative...
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Where Are the Workers? : From Great Resignation to Quiet Quitting
Lee, Dain; Park, Jinhyeok; Shin, Yongseok - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
To better understand the tight post-pandemic labor market in the US, we decompose the decline in aggregate hours worked into the extensive (fewer people working) and the intensive margin changes (workers working fewer hours). Although the pre-existing trend of lower labor force participation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013537727