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Early Life Environment and Racial Inequality in Education and Earnings in the United States
Chay, Kenneth Y. - 2014
Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960s and early 1970s that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
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Black-White Differences in Intergenerational Economic Mobility in the US
Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2011
inferences concerning group differences in mobility with respect to the pooled income distribution. This paper uses transition … downwardly mobile than whites. This implies a steady-state distribution in which there is no racial convergence in income. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117921
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A Nonparametric Analysis of Black-White Differences in Intergenerational Income Mobility in the United States
Bhattacharya, Debopam; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2011
the relationship between the incomes of parents and future earnings of their children. We focus on two different measures …This paper concerns the problem of inferring the effects of covariates on intergenerational income mobility, i.e. on … of mobility - (i) traditional transition probability of movement across income quantiles over generations and (ii) a new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014221881
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The Impact of Rosenwald Schools on Black Achievement
Aaronson, Daniel; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2011
The Black-White gap in schooling among Southern-born men narrowed sharply between the World Wars. From 1914 to 1931, nearly 5,000 schools were constructed as part of the Rosenwald Rural Schools Initiative. Using Census data and World War II records, we find that the Rosenwald program accounts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014199994
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Birth Cohort and the Black-White Achievement Gap : The Roles of Access and Health Soon After Birth
Chay, Kenneth Y.; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2010
One literature documents a significant, black-white gap in average test scores, while another finds a substantial narrowing of the gap during the 1980's, and stagnation in convergence after. We use two data sources – the Long Term Trends NAEP and AFQT scores for the universe of applicants to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014212304