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Racial Inequality in the 21st Century : The Declining Significance of Discrimination

Fryer, Roland G. - 2010

There are large and important differences between blacks and whites in nearly every facet of life - earnings, unemployment, incarceration, health, and so on. This chapter contains three themes. First, relative to the 20th century, the significance of discrimination as an explanation for racial...

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Are High Quality Schools Enough to Close the Achievement Gap? Evidence from a Social Experiment in Harlem

Dobbie, Will - 2009

Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ), which combines community investments with reform minded charter schools, is one of the most ambitious social experiments to alleviate poverty of our time. We provide the first empirical test of the causal impact of HCZ on educational outcomes, with an eye toward...

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The Causes and Consequences of Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Fryer, Roland G. - 2010

Until the 1960s, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) were practically the only institutions of higher learning open to Blacks in the US. Using nationally representative data files from 1970s and 1990s college attendees, we find that in the 1970s HBCU matriculation was associated...

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Is Debt Neutral in the Life Cycle Model?

Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 2010

This paper questions the widely accepted view that deficits have real effects in the life cycle model. Standard analyses of deficits within life cycle models treat the government as a dictatorial entity that can effect any intergenerational redistribution it desires. In contrast, this paper...

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Charter Schools and Labor Market Outcomes

Dobbie, Will - 2016

We estimate the impact of charter schools on early-life labor market outcomes using administrative data from Texas. We find that, at the mean, charter schools have no impact on test scores and a negative impact on earnings. No Excuses charter schools increase test scores and four-year college...

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The Effects of Income and Wealth on Time and Money Transfers between Parents and Children

Altonji, Joseph G.; Hayashi, Fumio; Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 2021

We use the 1988 PSID to study the effects of income and wealth on transfers of money and time between individuals and … transfers are only weakly related to income differences. Richer siblings give more to parents and receive less. Among parents … in the cross section or in the analysis using siblings that parental income or wealth raises time transfers from children …

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What Does the Corporate Income Tax Tax? A Simple Model Without Capital

Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 2010

The economics workings of the corporate income tax remain controversial. Harberger's seminal 1962 article viewed the … triggers the firm's classification as a corporation subject to income taxation. But going public has an upside. It permits …

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Simulating the Elimination of the U.S. Corporate Income Tax

Fehr, Hans - 2013

income tax produces rapid and dramatic increases in the model's level of U.S. investment, output, and real wages, making the …

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The Incidence and Efficiency Costs of Corporate Taxation When Corporate and Noncorporate Firms Produce the Same Good

Gravelle, Jane - 2010

This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Arnold Harberger's celebrated model of the corporation income tax … understanding the incidence and excess burden of the corporate income tax remains in question. One difficulty confronting all …

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Corporate Taxation and the Efficiency Gains of the 1986 Tax Reform Act

Gravelle, Jane - 2010

The 1986 Tax Reform Act, while having little effect on the overall effective tax rate on U.S. capital income, did … redistribution of income associated with the Tax Reform. We find that the 1986 Tax Reform law reduces excess burden by .85 percent of …

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