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Long-term economic consequences of Vietnam-era conscription: schooling, experience and earnings
Angrist, Joshua D.; Chen, Stacey H. - 2008
Military service reduces civilian labor market experience but subsidizes higher education through the GI Bill. Both of these channels are likely to affect civilian earnings. New estimates of the effects of military service using Vietnam-era draft-lottery instruments show post-service earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271218
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New evidence on classroom computers and pupil learning
Angrist, Joshua D.; Lavy, Victor - 2001
The question of how technology affects learning has been at the center of recent debates over educational inputs. In 1994, the Israeli State Lottery sponsored the installation of computers in many elementary and middle schools. This program provides an opportunity to estimate the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001630273
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Parental Leave and Children's Schooling Outcomes: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Large Parental Leave Reform
Danzer, Natalia; Lavy, Victor - 2013
parental leave from 12 to 24 months for children born on July 1, 1990 or later. We use test scores from the Austrian PISA test …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329122
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New evidence on the causal link between the quantity and quality of children
Angrist, Joshua D.; Lavy, Victor; Schlosser, Analía - 2006
A longstanding question in the economics of the family is the relationship between sibship size and subsequent human capital formation and economic welfare. If there is a causal quantity-quality tradeoff, then policies that discourage large families should lead to increased human capital, higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267406
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Does school integration generate peer effects? : Evidence from Boston's Metco program
Angrist, Joshua D.; Lang, Kevin - 2004
Most integration programs transfer students between schools within districts. In this paper, we study Metco, a long …-running desegregation program that sends mostly Black students out of the Boston public school district to attend schools in more affluent … suburban districts. Metco increases the number of Black students in receiving districts dramatically. Because Metco students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261665
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New Evidence on Classroom Computers and Pupil Learning
Angrist, Joshua D.; Lavy, Victor - 2001
The question of how technology affects learning has been at the center of recent debates over educational inputs. In 1994, the Israeli State Lottery sponsored the installation of computers in many elementary and middle schools. This program provides an opportunity to estimate the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270570
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Incentives and services for college achievement: evidence from a randomized trial
Angrist, Joshua D.; Lang, Daniel; Oreopoulos, Philip - 2007
Many North American college students have trouble satisfying degree requirements in a timely manner. This paper reports … treatment group combined both interventions. Service take-up rates were much higher for women than for men and for students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270626