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persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research. However, since Gary Solon's 1999 Chapter … precision of the correlations themselves. -- Education ; income mobility ; income transmission ; intergenerational transmission …
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the effects of increased access to student loans on credit-constrained students' educational attainment, earnings, debt …
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More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is … estimated elasticity of intergenerational transmission of income of approximately .2. -- Ability ; intergenerational mobility …
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using scores from IQ tests taken outside of school, at the time of military enrolment, and measured when students are around …
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of children from poorer families. -- birth weight ; twins ; education ; IQ ; earnings …
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seem more pronounced for women and low-income students. In addition, there is little evidence that the effects of high … 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 between high school quality and student success at college. Using …
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, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic … these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school …
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Although there is a large gap between Black and White American life expectancies, the gap fell 48.9% between 1990-2018, mainly due to mortality declines among Black Americans. We examine age-specific mortality trends and racial gaps in life expectancy in rich and poor U.S. areas and with...
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A variety of public campaigns, including the "Just Say No" campaign of the 1980s and 1990s that encouraged teenagers to "Just Say No to Drugs", are based on the premise that teenagers are very susceptible to peer influences. Despite this, very little is known about the effect of school peers on...
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