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Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and reading achievement. Our identification derives...
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-based early childhood education intervention? Data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), which randomly assigned …
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Trends in skill bias and greater turbulence in modern labor markets put wages and employment prospects of unskilled …
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to college education. We argue that Duncan and Hoffman's augmented wage equation the workhorse model in the overeducation … literature in which wages are regressed on years of overschooling, years of required schooling and years of underschooling is at …
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jobs held 5 years after graduation by pre-reform graduates in 2005. Overeducation/overskilling are relatively high – at 11 … both types of the educational mismatch.The quality of education is also a factor, suggesting that in addition to the low …
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This article presents and explores a rich new data source to analyse the determinants of pay and job rank amongst academic Economists in the UK. Characteristics associated with individual productivity and workplace features are found to be important determinants of the relative wage and...
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Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the...
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We present new evidence on the causal impact of education on crime, by considering a large expansion of the UK post …-compulsory education system that occurred in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The education expansion raised education levels across the … whole education distribution and, in particular for our analysis, at the bottom end enabling us to develop an instrumental …
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In this paper, I make use of data from the 2000 follow-up of the National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS) post …-secondary education transcript files to extend what is known about the value of education at community colleges. I examine the effects of …
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This paper derives original series of average years of schooling in the United States 1870-1930, which take into account the impact of mass migrations on the US educational level. We reconstruct the foreign-born US population by age and by country of origin, while combining data on the flow of...
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