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Inequality During the Early Years : Child Outcomes and Readiness to Learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States
Bradbury, Bruce - 2011
This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child outcomes related to readiness to learn, focusing on...
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Long-Run Trends in the U.S. SES-Achievement Gap
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2020
Rising inequality in the United States has raised concerns about potentially widening gaps in educational achievement by socio-economic status (SES). Using assessments from LTT-NAEP, Main-NAEP, TIMSS, and PISA that are psychometrically linked over time, we trace trends in achievement for U.S....
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Teacher Performance Pay in the United States : Incidence and Adult Outcomes
Bond, Timothy - 2018
This paper estimates the effect of exposure to teacher pay-for-performance programs on adult outcomes. We construct a comprehensive data set of schools which have implemented teacher performance pay programs across the United States since 1986, and use our data to calculate the fraction of...
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Foreign and Native-Born Stem Graduates and Innovation Intensity in the United States
Winters, John V. - 2015
native and foreign STEM graduates have statistically significant and economically large effects on innovation. Together these … results suggest that policies that increase the stocks of both foreign and native STEM graduates increase innovation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013032076
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The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation : Evidence for the U.S. Economy
Lynch, Lisa M. - 2014
States during the 1990's, I examine the incidence and intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with … investments in organizational innovation. Past profits tend to be positively associated with organizational innovation. Employers … being part of a multi-establishment firm) are more likely to invest in organizational innovation. Investments in human …
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Immigration and Status Exchange in Australia and the United States
Choi, Kate - 2011
The claim that marriage is a venue for status exchange of achieved traits, like education, and ascribed attributes, notably race and ethnic membership, has regained traction in the social stratification literature. Most studies that consider status exchanges ignore birthplace as a social...
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Can Pollution Cause Poverty? The Effects of Pollution on Educational, Health and Economic Outcomes
Persico, Claudia - 2020
Although industrial plants, known as Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) sites, exist in every major city of the United States releasing billions of pounds of toxic substances annually, there is little evidence about how these pollutants might harm child development and children's long run outcomes....
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Diversity in Schools : Immigrants and the Educational Performance of U.S. Born Students
Figlio, David; Giuliano, Paola; Marchingiglio, Riccardo; … - 2021
We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school selection of US-born students, especially among...
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Inequality in Early Care Experienced by U.S. Children
Flood, Sarah; McMurry, Joel; Sojourner, Aaron; Wiswall, … - 2021
Using every major nationally-representative dataset on parental and non-parental care provided to children up to age 6, we quantify differences in American children's care experiences by socioeconomic status (SES), proxied primarily with maternal education. Increasingly, higher-SES children...
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Wage divergence and unemployment: the impact of insider power and training costs
Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 2000
The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply explanation to the discussion how these distinct labour...
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