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Alesina, Alberto - 2019

We examine intergenerational mobility (IM) in educational attainment in Africa since independence using census data. First, we map IM across 27 countries and more than 2,800 regions, documenting wide cross-country and especially within-country heterogeneity. Inertia looms large as differences in...

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Slavery and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital

Sacerdote, Bruce - 2021

How much do sins visited upon one generation harm that generation's future sons, daughters, grandsons and granddaughters? I study this question by comparing outcomes for former slaves and their children and grandchildren to outcomes for free blacks (pre-1865), and their children and...

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Historical Perspectives on Racial Differences in Schooling in the United States

Collins, William J.; Margo, Robert A. - 2021

African-Americans entered the post-Civil War era with extremely low levels of exposure to schooling. Relying primarily on micro-level census data, we describe racial differences in literacy rates, school attendance, years of educational attainment, age-in-grade distributions, spending per pupil,...

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When Evidence is Not Enough : Findings from a Randomized Evaluation of Evidence-Based Literacy Instruction (Ebli)

Jacob, Brian Aaron - 2015

This paper reports the results of an experimental evaluation of Evidence Based Literacy Instruction (EBLI). Developed over 15 years ago, EBLI aims to provide teachers with instructional strategies to improve reading accuracy, fluency and comprehension. Sixty-three teachers in grades 2-5 in seven...

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Education and the Age Profile of Literacy into Adulthood

Cascio, Elizabeth U. - 2008

It is widely documented that U.S. students score below their OECD counterparts on international achievement tests, but it is less commonly known that ultimately, U.S. native adults catch up. In this paper, we explore institutional explanations for differences in the evolution of literacy over...

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Health, Human Capital, and African American Migration Before 1910

Logan, Trevon - 2008

This is the first paper to document the effect of health on the migration propensities of African Americans in the American past. Using both IPUMS and the Colored Troops Sample of the Civil War Union Army Data, I estimate the effects of literacy and health on the migration propensities of...

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One Step at a Time : The Effects of an Early Literacy Text Messaging Program for Parents of Preschoolers

York, Ben - 2014

Large systematic differences in young children's home learning experiences have long-term economic consequences. Many parenting programs place significant demands on parents' time and inundate parents with information. This study evaluates the effects of READY4K!, an eight-month-long...

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Shock Value : Bill Smoothing and Energy Price Pass-Through

Hausman, Catherine - 2018

including gas taxes and carbon pricing. Like the pass-through literature in general, the growing energy pass-through literature …

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The Economics of Taxing the Rich

Slemrod, Joel - 2021

fundamental tax reform. This paper critically reviews the economics literature and concludes that the right answer to these … questions depends in part on value judgments about which economics has little to contribute, but also depends on standard … economics concerns such as the process generating income and wealth, and whether wealth individuals' economic activities have …

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Garbage and Recycling in Communities with Curbside Recycling and Unit-Based Pricing

Kinnaman, Thomas C.; Fullerton, Don - 2021

This paper estimates the impact of a user fee and a curbside recycling program on garbage and recycling amounts, allowing for the possibility of endogenous policy choices. Previous estimates of the effects of these policies could be biased if unobserved variables such as local preference for the...

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