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Card, David E.; DellaVigna, Stefano; Malmendier, Ulrike - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

We propose a new classification of experiments that captures the extent to which the experimental design and analysis are linked to economic theory. We then use this system to classify all published field experiments in the five top economics journals from 1975 to 2010. We find that the vast...

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Earnings, Schooling, and Ability Revisited

Card, David E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1994

This paper presents a survey and interpretation of recent research on the return to education. The empirical findings … in a series of current papers suggest that the causal effect of education on earnings is understated by standard …

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Labor Market Effects of School Quality: Theory and Evidence

Card, David E.; Krueger, Alan B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996

education. We then summarize the literature that relates school resources to students' earnings and educational attainment. A …

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Racial Segregation and the Black-White Test Score Gap

Card, David E.; Rothstein, Jesse - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Racial segregation is often blamed for some of the achievement gap between blacks and whites. We study the effects of school and neighborhood segregation on the relative SAT scores of black students across different metropolitan areas, using large microdata samples for the 1998-2001 test...

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Estimating the Return to Schooling: Progress on Some Persistent Econometric Problems

Card, David E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000

This paper reviews a set of recent studies that have attempted to measure the causal effect of education on labor … market earnings by using institutional features of the supply side of the education system as exogenous determinants of …, differences in the accessibility of schools, and similar features as instrumental variables for completed education reveals that …

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