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High-School Exit Examinations and the Schooling Decisions of Teenagers: A Multi-Dimensional Regression-Discontinuity Analysis
Murnane, Richard J.; Papay, John P.; Willett, John B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
We ask whether failing one or more of the state-mandated high-school exit examinations affects whether students graduate from high school. Using a new multi-dimensional regression-discontinuity approach, we examine simultaneously scores on mathematics and English language arts tests. Barely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652899
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Race-Specific Agglomeration Economies: Social Distance and the Black-White Wage Gap
Ross, Stephen; Ananat, Elizabeth; Fu, Shihe - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
age, education, and other demographics on wages, for unobserved worker skill as proxied by residential location, and for … own race. We observe similar patterns for human capital externalities as measured by share workers with a college … education. We also find parallel results for firm productivity by employment density and share college-educated using firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950796
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Selection and Economic Gains in the Great Migration of African Americans: New Evidence from Linked Census Data
Collins, William J.; Wanamaker, Marianne H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
The onset of World War I spurred the "Great Migration" of African Americans from the U.S. South, arguably the most important internal migration in U.S. history. We create a new panel dataset of more than 5,000 men matched from the 1910 to 1930 census manuscripts to address three interconnected...
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Enforcement and Immigrant Location Choice
Watson, Tara - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
college education, suggesting that aggressive enforcement policies may be missing their intended targets. No similar effect is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951153
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Who Gentrifies Low-Income Neighborhoods?
Walsh, Randall Phillip; McKinnish, Terra; White, Kirk - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
, uncovering differential patterns by race, education, age and family structure that would not have emerged in the more aggregate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830256
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Do Labor Market Networks Have An Important Spatial Dimension?
Hellerstein, Judith K.; Neumark, David; Kutzbach, Mark J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We test for evidence of spatial, residence-based labor market networks. Turnover is lower for workers more connected to their neighbors generally and more connected to neighbors of the same race or ethnic group. Both results are consistent with networks producing better job matches, while the...
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Schooling and the AFQT: Evidence from School Entry Laws
Cascio, Elizabeth U.; Lewis, Ethan G. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
Is the Armed Forces Qualifying Test (AFQT) a measure of achievement or ability? The answer to this question is critical for drawing inferences from studies in which it is employed. In this paper, we test for a relationship between schooling and AFQT performance in the NLSY 79 by comparing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078623
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Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School
Fryer, Roland; Levitt, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002
In previous research, a substantial gap in test scores between White and Black students persists, even after controlling for a wide range of observable characteristics. Using a newly available data set (Early Childhood Longitudinal Study), we demonstrate that in stark contrast to earlier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085351
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Affirmative Action in Higher Education in India: Targeting, Catch Up, and Mismatch
Krishna, Kala; Robles, Verónica C. Frisancho - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Affirmative action policies in higher education are used in many countries to try to socially advance historically … over the actual impact of such preferences in higher education on educational performance and labor outcomes. Most of the … higher education on minority students focusing on three central issues in the current debate: targeting, catch up, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401250
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Financial Incentives and Student Achievement: Evidence from Randomized Trials
Fryer, Roland - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
incentives tied to output are not effective. Relative to popular education reforms of the past few decades, student incentives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008628349