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This paper develops methods for evaluating marginal policy changes. We characterize how the effects of marginal policy changes depend on the direction of the policy change, and show that marginal policy effects are fundamentally easier to identify and to estimate than conventional treatment...

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Labor Market Discrimination and Racial Differences in Premarket Factors

Carneiro, Pedro Manuel; Heckman, James J.; Masterov, … - 2021

. Their study has been faulted because minority children and their parents may have pessimistic expectations about receiving … outcomes, minority parents and children have more pessimistic expectations about child schooling relative to white children and … their parents when their children are young. At later ages, expectations are more uniform across racial and ethnic groups …

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The Evidence on Credit Constraints in Post-Secondary Schooling

Carneiro, Pedro Manuel; Heckman, James J. - 2021

This paper examines the family income -- college enrollment relationship and the evidence on credit constraints in post-secondary schooling. We distinguish short-run liquidity constraints from the long-term factors that promote cognitive and noncognitive ability. Long-run factors crystallized in...

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College Majors

Patnaik, Arpita; Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2022

This article reviews the recent literature on the determinants of college major choices. We first highlight long-term trends and persistent differences in college major choices by gender, race, and family background. We then review the existing research in six key areas: expected earnings and...

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