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Modeling the signaling value of the GED with an application to an exogenous passing standard increase in Texas
Lofstrom, Magnus; Tyler, John - 2007
which affected GED test takers in Texas. We utilize unique data from the Texas Schools Micro Data Panel (TSMP) which contain … demographic and GED test score information from the Texas Education Agency linked to pre- and post-test taking Unemployment … Insurance quarterly wage records from the Texas Workforce Commission. Comparing Texas dropouts who acquired a GED before the …
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Social change
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih - 2008
A society is characterized by the common attitudes and behavior of its members. Such behavior reflects purposive decision making by individuals, given the environment they live in. Thus, as technology changes, so might social norms. There were big changes in social norms during the 20th century,...
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Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010
Lundberg, Shelly; Pollak, Robert - 2013
Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women overtook and surpassed that of men and the ratio of men's to women's wage rates fell, traditional patterns of gender specialization in work weakened. The primary source of the gains...
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A new framework for the analysis of inequality
Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James Joseph - 2007
This paper presents a new framework for analyzing inequality that moves beyond the anonymity postulate. We estimate the determinants of sectoral choice and the joint distributions of outcomes across sectors. We determine which components of realized earnings variability are due to uncertainty...
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Parental marital disruption, family type, and transfers to disabled elderly parents
Pezzin, Liliana E.; Pollak, Robert A.; Steinberg … - 2008
This paper examines the family variables that affect intergenerational living arrangements and adult children's time and cash transfers to their unpartnered disabled elderly parents. The family variables we examine include parental marital status, parental marital history, whether the index...
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From shame to game in one hundred years: an economic model of the rise in premarital sex and its de-stigmatization
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - 2010
Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against its costs. Those at the lower end of the socioeconomic scale indoctrinate their daughters less...
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What happened to God's time? The evolution of secularism and hours of work in America, evidence from religious holidays
Lozano, Fernando A. - 2012
Are American workers less likely to observe a religious holiday now than they were 30 years ago? In this paper I use evidence from religious holidays to explore the evolution of market hours' flexibility and religious observance during the last thirty years. To do so, I take advantage of three...
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Power of the pill or power of abortion? Re-examining the effects of young women's access to reproductive control
Myers, Caitlin Knowles - 2012
Recent research postulating that the diffusion of confidential access to the birth control pill to young women in the United States contributed to the dramatic social changes of the late 1960s and 1970s has not adequately accounted for the largely contemporaneous diffusion of access to abortion....
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Modeling Area-Level Health Rankings
Courtemanche, Charles; Soneji, Samir; Tchernis, Rusty - 2013
uncertainty. We use county-level data from Texas and Wisconsin to compare our approach to conventional rankings that assign … deterministic factor weights and ignore uncertainty. Greater discrepancies in rankings emerge for Texas than Wisconsin since the … but becomes especially large in Texas after incorporating noise from imputing its considerable missing data. …
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Do bans on affirmative action hurt minority students? Evidence from the Texas Top 10% Plan
Cortes, Kalena E. - 2010
from affirmative action to the Top 10% Plan in Texas decreased both retention and graduation rates of lower-ranked minority … hypothesis. These results suggest that most of the increase in the graduation gap between minorities and non-minorities in Texas …
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