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Putting the Co in Education : Timing, Reasons, and Consequences of College Coeducation from 1835 to the Present

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2010

The history of coeducation in U.S. higher education is explored through an analysis of a database containing information on all institutions offering four-year undergraduate degrees that operated in 1897, 1924, 1934, or 1980, most of which still exist today. These data reveal surprises about the...

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Neighborhood Effects on Crime for Female and Male Youth : Evidence from a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment

Kling, Jeffrey R. - 2004

The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) demonstration assigned housing vouchers via random lottery to public housing residents in five cities. We use the exogenous variation in residential locations generated by MTO to estimate neighborhood effects on youth crime and delinquency. The offer to relocate...

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Comparative advantage, learning, and sectoral wage determination

Gibbons, Robert; Katz, Lawrence F.; Lemieux, Thomas; … - In: Journal of labor economics 23 (2005) 4, pp. 681-724

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Layoffs and lemons

Gibbons, Robert - In: Journal of labor economics 9 (1991) 4, pp. 351-380

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The Power of the Pill : Oral Contraceptives and Women's Career and Marriage Decisions

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2000

The fraction of U.S. college graduate women entering professional programs increased substantially around 1970 and the age at first marriage among all U.S. college graduate women soared just after 1972. We explore the relationship between these two changes and how each was shaped by the...

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The Returns to Skill in the United States across the Twentieth Century

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1999

Economic inequality is higher today than it has been since 1939, as measured by both the wage structure and wealth … inequality. But the comparison between 1939 and 1999 is largely made out of necessity; the 1940 U.S. population census was the … contributing factor to the decrease in educational returns. Inequality and the returns to education across the entire century …

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Neighborhoods Matter : Assessing the Evidence for Place Effects

Chyn, Eric; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

How does one's place of residence affect individual behavior and long-run outcomes? Understanding neighborhood and place effects has been a leading question for social scientists during the past half-century. Recent empirical studies using experimental and quasi-experimental research designs...

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Extending the Race between Education and Technology

Autor, David H.; Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2020

explain 75 percent of the rise of U.S. wage inequality from 1980 to 2000 as compared to 38 percent for 2000 to 2017 …

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Understanding Trends in Alternative Work Arrangements in the United States

Katz, Lawrence F. - 2019

This paper describes and tries to reconcile trends in alternative work arrangements in the United States using data from the Contingent Worker Survey supplements to the Current Population Survey (CPS) for 1995 to 2017, the 2015 RAND-Princeton Contingent Work Survey (CWS), and administrative tax...

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The Incubator of Human Capital : The NBER and the Rise of the Human Capital Paradigm

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2020

The human capital construct is deep in the bones of economics and finds reference by many classical economists, even if they did not use the phrase. The term "human capital," seldom mentioned in economics before the 1950s, increased starting in the 1960s and blossomed in the 1990s. The upsurge...

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