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Historical Perspectives on Racial Differences in Schooling in the United States
Collins, William J. - 2003
African-Americans entered the post-Civil War era with extremely low levels of exposure to schooling. Relying primarily on micro-level census data, we describe racial differences in literacy rates, school attendance, years of educational attainment, age-in-grade distributions, spending per pupil,...
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The Long-Run Spillover Effects of Pollution : How Exposure to Lead Affects Everyone in the Classroom
Gazze, Ludovica; Persico, Claudia; Spirovska, Sandra - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
on preschool blood lead levels (BLLs) matched to education data for all students in North Carolina public schools. We …
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Investment in U.S. Education and Training
Mincer, Jacob - 1994
The current high rates of return to human capital stimulate a supply response via increased investments in education … differential in wages. This paper reports estimates of: the responses of investments in post-secondary education, measured by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474071
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Does School Quality Matter? Returns to Education and the Characteristics of Public Schools in the United States
Card, David - 1990
, and the relative pay of teachers -- on the rate of return to education for men born between 1920 and 1949. Using earnings … education in the region where they currently reside, and other factors. A decrease in the pupil-teacher ratio from 30 to 25, for … example, is associated with a 0.4 percentage point increase in the rate of return to education. The estimated relationship …
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Suffrage, Schooling, and Sorting in the Post-Bellum U.S. South
Naidu, Suresh - 2012
This paper estimates the political and economic effects of the 19th century disenfranchisement of black citizens in the U.S. South. Using adjacent county-pairs that straddle state boundaries, I examine the effect of voting restrictions on political competition, public goods, and factor markets....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460530
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Human-Algorithm Interactions : Evidence from Zillow.com
Fu, Runshan; Jin, Ginger Zhe; Liu, Meng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using bi-weekly snapshots of Zillow in three US cities, we document how home sellers and buyers interact with Zillow's Zestimate algorithm during the sales cycle of residential properties. We find that listing and selling outcomes respond significantly to Zestimate, and Zestimate is quickly...
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Housing Precarity & the COVID-19 Pandemic : Impacts of Utility Disconnection and Eviction Moratoria on Infections and Deaths Across US Counties
Jowers, Kay; Timmins, Christopher; Bhavsar, Nrupen; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated the adoption of a number of policies that aim to reduce the spread of the disease by promoting housing stability. Housing precarity, which includes both the risk of eviction and utility disconnections or shut-offs, reduces a person's ability to abide by...
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Evictions and Psychiatric Treatment
Bradford, Ashley; Maclean, Johanna Catherine - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Stable housing is critical for health, employment, education, and other social outcomes. Evictions reflect a form of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477258
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The 2021 Child Tax Credit, the Living Arrangements and Housing Affordability of Families with Low Incomes
Pilkauskas, Natasha V.; Michelmore, Katherine; Kovski, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Access to safe and stable housing is important for child and adult wellbeing. Yet many low-income households face severe challenges in maintaining stable housing. In this paper we examine the impact of the 2021 temporary expansion to the Child Tax Credit (CTC) on the living arrangements and...
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Are Political and Charitable Giving Substitutes? Evidence from the United States
Petrova, Maria - 2020
We provide evidence that individuals substitute between political contributions and charitable contributions, using micro data from the American Red Cross and Federal Election Commission. First, we find that foreign natural disasters, which are positive shocks to charitable giving, crowd out...
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