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Fast Times at Ridgemont High? The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Births

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

their children. We know that low-educated women are more likely to have a teenage birth, but does this imply that policies …

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Can You Leave High School Behind?

Black, Sandra E.; Lincove, Jane Arnold; Cullinane, Jenna; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

In recent years, many states, including California, Texas, and Oregon, have changed admissions policies to increase access to public universities for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A key concern, however, is how these students will perform. This paper examines the relationship...

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Why the Apple Doesn't Fall Far: Understanding Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … relationship between parents' education and children's education, despite significant OLS relationships. We find 2SLS estimates …'and children's education are due primarily to family characteristics and inherited ability and not education spillovers. …

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Efficacy vs. Equity: What Happens When States Tinker with College Admissions in a Race-Blind Era?

Black, Sandra E.; Cortes, Kalena E.; Lincove, Jane Arnold - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

College admissions officers face a rapidly changing policy environment where court decisions have limited the use of affirmative action. At the same time, there is mounting evidence that commonly used signals of college readiness, such as the SAT/ACTs, are subject to race and socioeconomic bias....

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Beyond the Incidence of Training: Evidence from a National Employers Survey

Lynch, Lisa; Black, Sandra E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1995

This paper seeks to provide new insight into how school and post school training investments are linked to employer workplace practices and outcomes using a unique nationally representative survey of establishments in the U.S., the Educational Quality of the Workforce National Employers Survey...

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Small Family, Smart Family? Family Size and the IQ Scores of Young Men

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

How do families influence the ability of children? Cognitive skills have been shown to be a strong predictor of … to a better understanding of children's long run outcomes. This paper uses a large dataset on the male population of … Norway and focuses on one family characteristic: the effect of family size on IQ. Because of the endogeneity of family size …

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What's Driving the New Economy: The Benefits of Workplace Innovation

Black, Sandra E.; Lynch, Lisa - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000

Using a unique nationally representative sample of U.S. establishments surveyed in 1993 and 1996, we examine the relationship between workplace innovations and establishment productivity and wages. We match plant level practices with plant level productivity and wage outcomes and estimate...

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How to Compete: The Impact of Workplace Practices and Information Technology on Productivity

Black, Sandra E.; Lynch, Lisa - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997

Using data from a unique nationally representative sample of businesses, the Educational Quality of the Workforce National Employers Survey (EQW-NES), matched with the Bureau of the Census' Longitudinal Research Database (LRD), we examine the impact of workplace practices, information technology...

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Breaking the Glass Ceiling? The Effect of Board Quotas on Female Labor Market Outcomes in Norway

Bertrand, Marianne; Black, Sandra E.; Jensen, Sissel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

In late 2003, Norway passed a law mandating 40 percent representation of each gender on the board of publicly limited … corporate sector and decrease gender disparity in earnings within that sector. We document that the newly (post …-reform) appointed female board members were observably more qualified than their female predecessors, and that the gender gap in …

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