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and Wages (QCEW) data on earnings and employment, the earnings of an average worker in Florida will increase as much as …. Although focus is on hurricanes in Florida, this GDD technique is applicable to a wider range of exogenous shocks. …
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average worker in a Florida county rises over 4% within the first quarter of being hit by a major Category 4 or 5 hurricane … relative to counties not hit, and rises about 1ơ% for workers in Florida counties hit by less major Category 1-3 hurricanes …
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Thanks to extraordinary and exponential improvements in data storage and computing capacities, it is now possible to collect, manage, and analyze data in magnitudes and in manners that would have been inconceivable just a short time ago. As the world has developed this remarkable capacity to...
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mathematics and that these norms could be transmitted within the family. Using data from the Florida Department of Education …
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We use statewide administrative data from Florida to estimate the impact of attending public schools with different …
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grade retention under Florida's test-based promotion policy to study the causal effect of retention on student outcomes over …
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standardized test scores. We do this by utilizing grade-level longitudinal data on Florida's school districts from the Florida … Department of Education combined with 4-H participation statistics from Florida 4-H. Specifically, we analyze the effect of the … extent of 4-H participation for third through tenth grade on the mathematics and reading subtests of the Florida …
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We use remarkable population-level administrative education and birth records from Florida to study the role of Long …
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Florida students to identify the returns to four-year college for students on the academic margin of college admission. In … above the threshold value for admissions eligibility at a large public university in Florida are much more likely to attend … returns to college for the population of Florida high school students. Consistent with the credit constraints hypothesis …
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A society is characterized by the common attitudes and behavior of its members. Such behavior reflects purposive decision making by individuals, given the environment they live in. Thus, as technology changes, so might social norms. There were big changes in social norms during the 20th century,...
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