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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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-achieving students from more and less affluent neighborhoods. Seats are allocated based on prior achievement with 70 percent reserved for … design, we find no effect on test scores or college attendance for students from high- or low-SES neighborhoods and positive … effects on student reports of their experiences. For students from low-SES neighborhoods, we estimate significant negative …
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in life along multiple measures. We also find that the children of those exposed also experience improved health and … benefits of social interventions in a middle-income country. …
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The literature on intergenerational income mobility uses a diverse set of measures and there is limited knowledge about … main analysis uses income tax data from Australia to produce a comprehensive set of empirical estimates for each of 19 …
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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 …
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PSID. We estimate that the rank-rank slope in SRHS is 0.26. We show that including both parent health and income in models … health and then use this to combine income and health into a measure of welfare and estimate the rank-rank slope to be about …
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rose from 0.27 to 0.4 and the IGE rose from 0.35 to 0.51. The share of children whose income exceeds that of their parents …
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more strongly associated with children's health than parents' physical health indicating that mental health might be a more … mental health is at least as persistent across generations as physical health. Importantly, parents' mental health is much … important transmission channel. Finally, we construct an overall measure of welfare that combines income and health, and …
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more strongly associated with children's health than parents' physical health indicating that mental health might be a more … mental health is at least as persistent across generations as physical health. Importantly, parents' mental health is much … important transmission channel. Finally, we construct an overall measure of welfare that combines income and health, and …
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Because a significant portion of U.S. students lacks critical mathematic skills, schools across the country are … skills and tests designed specifically to target pre-algebra and algebra skills. We find that students randomly assigned to … computer-aided instruction score at least 0.17 of a standard deviation higher on a pre-algebra/algebra test than students …
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