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Affirmative Action and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Price, Joseph; Cotton, Christopher; Hickman, Brent R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
The empirical literature on Affirmative Action (AA) in college admissions tends to ignore the effects admissions policies have on incentives of students to invest developing pre-college human capital. We explore the incentive effects of AA using a field experiment that creates a microcosm of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010890092
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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 … 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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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 Mechanisms through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Savelyev, Peter A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the mechanisms producing these impacts. This paper uses longitudinal data on cognitive and personality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010785594
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Self-Employment, Family Background, and Race
Rosen, Harvey; Hout, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999
We focus on the intergenerational transmission of the propensity to be self-employed. Our emphasis is on the role of family background, and in particular, on what we call the intergenerational pick-up rate with respect to self-employment, the probability that a person with a self-employed parent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828953
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The Return to English in a Non-English Speaking Country: Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel
Lang, Kevin; Siniver, Erez - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
-section estimates there is a significant return to English knowledge for both immigrants and natives with high levels of education … with past evidence on language-skill complementarity. Natives and immigrants with high levels of education benefit … similarly from knowing English. While immigrants with low levels of education do not benefit from knowledge of English, there is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829413
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Birth Cohort and the Black-White Achievement Gap: The Roles of Access and Health Soon After Birth
Chay, Kenneth; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
One literature documents a significant, black-white gap in average test scores, while another finds a substantial narrowing of the gap during the 1980's, and stagnation in convergence after. We use two data sources -- the Long Term Trends NAEP and AFQT scores for the universe of applicants to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980322
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Do School-To-Work Programs Help the "Forgotten Half"?
Neumark, David; Rothstein, Donna - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
, mentoring and coop programs increase post-secondary education, and coop, school enterprise, and internship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005061602
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Neighborhood Violence and Urban Youth
Aizer, Anna - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
are also characterized by the highest degree of disadvantage: greatest poverty, highest unemployment, least education. And …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005050087
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Do Investments in Universal Early Education Pay Off? Long-term Effects of Introducing Kindergartens into Public Schools
Cascio, Elizabeth U. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
early education. I find that white children aged five after the typical state reform were less likely to be high school … education among the poorest five year olds. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005052153