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We use estimates across all known "credibly causal" studies to examine the distributions of the causal effects of public K12 school spending on test scores and educational attainment in the United States. Under reasonable assumptions, for each of the 31 included studies, we compute the same...
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Many economists and educators of diverse political beliefs favor public support for education on the premise that a … between education and voting for the US, but not for the UK. Using the information on validated voting, we find that …
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Over the past 15 years, labor-quality growth has been very strong--defying nearly all earlier projections--and has added around 0.5 percentage points to an otherwise modest U.S. productivity picture. Going forward, labor quality is likely to add considerably less and may even be a drag on...
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years immediately after birth. This study analyzes whether the across-cohort patterns in the black-white education and …With Census data, we find: i) a significant narrowing across the same cohorts in education gaps driven primarily by a … gains is greater than can be explained by only the black gains in education and test scores for reasonable estimates of the …
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additively and interacts with treatment variables. We present identification and estimation methods for parameters of interest in …
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first to inquire of wage and salary income and education. We address what the returns to skill were prior to 1940 and piece … century, not just in the 1940s, both coinciding with major economic disruptions brought about by war. The returns to education … contributing factor to the decrease in educational returns. Inequality and the returns to education across the entire century …
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Previous measures of the incidence of public investment in higher education focus on the transfer to public college … these spillovers is important for characterizing incidence using a model of higher education that we validate with quasi …
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How does one's place of residence affect individual behavior and long-run outcomes? Understanding neighborhood and place effects has been a leading question for social scientists during the past half-century. Recent empirical studies using experimental and quasi-experimental research designs...
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Investing in college carries high returns, but comes with considerable risk. Financial products like equity contracts can mitigate this risk, yet college is typically financed through non--dischargeable, government-backed student loans. This paper argues that adverse selection has unraveled...
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