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The Effect of High School Exit Exams on Graduation, Employment, Wages and Incarceration

Lang, Kevin; Baker, Olesya - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We evaluate the effects of high school exit exams on high school graduation, incarceration, employment and wages. We construct a state/graduation-cohort dataset using the Current Population Survey, Census and information on exit exams. We find relatively modest effects of high school exit exams...

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The Black-White Education-Scaled Test-Score Gap in Grades K-7

Lang, Kevin; Bond, Timothy N. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We address the ordinality of test scores by rescaling them by the average eventual educational attainment of students with a given test score in a given grade. We show that measurement error in test scores causes this approach to underestimate the black-white test score gap and use an...

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The Evolution of the Black-White Test Score Gap in Grades K-3: The Fragility of Results

Lang, Kevin; Bond, Timothy N. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Although both economists and psychometricians typically treat them as interval scales, test scores are reported using ordinal scales. Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study and the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey, we examine the effect of order-preserving scale transformations...

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Finishing Degrees and Finding Jobs: U.S. Higher Education and the Flow of Foreign IT Workers

Bound, John; Demirci, Murat; Khanna, Gaurav; Turner, Sarah - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

The rising importance of Information Technology (IT) occupations in the U.S. economy has been accompanied by an expansion in the representation of high-skill foreign-born IT workers. To illustrate, the share of foreign born in IT occupations increased from about 15.5% to about 31.5% between 1993...

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On the Validity of Season of Birth as an Instrument in Wage Equations: A Comment on Angrist & Krueger's "Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Scho

Bound, John; Jaeger, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996

In an important and provocative paper, `Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings?', Angrist and Krueger use quarter of birth as an instrument for educational attainment in wage equations. To support a causal interpretation of their estimates, they argue that compulsory...

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Going to War and Going to College: Did World War II and the G.I. Bill Increase Educational Attainment for Returning Veterans?

Bound, John; Turner, Sarah E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999

The end of World War II brought a flood of returning veterans to America's colleges and universities. Yet, despite widespread rhetoric about the democratization' of higher education that came with this large pool of students, there is little evidence about the question of whether military...

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Double Trouble: On the Value of Twins-Based Estimation of the Return to Schooling

Bound, John; Solon, Gary - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998

Several recent studies use the schooling and wage variation between monozygotic twins to estimate the return to schooling. In this paper, we summarize the results from this literature, and we examine the implications of endogenous determination of which twin goes to school longer and of...

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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

We use a unique sample of Russian immigrants and natives in Israel to examine the return to English knowledge. In cross …-section estimates there is a significant return to English knowledge for both immigrants and natives with high levels of education … explained by factors other than language acquisition. These results are confirmed using panel data on wages and knowledge of …

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Changes in the Demand for Skilled Labor within U.S. Manufacturing Industries: Evidence from the Annual Survey of Manufacturing

Berman, Eli; Bound, John; Griliches, Zvi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1993

This paper investigates the shift in demand towards skilled labor in U.S. manufacturing. Between 1979 and 1989. employment of production workers in manufacturing dropped by 2.2 mil1ion or 15 percent while employment of non-production workers rose by 3 percent. A decomposition of changing...

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Playing the Admissions Game: Student Reactions to Increasing College Competition

Bound, John; Hershbein, Brad; Long, Bridget Terry - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Gaining entrance to a four-year college or university, particularly a selective institution, has become increasingly competitive over the last several decades. We document this phenomenon and show how it has varied across different parts of the student ability distribution and across region,...

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