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education and poorer language skills than natives and outcomes are initially poor with low employment, high welfare use and low …
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with ten to forty years of observations from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics. We find that neither is strongly …
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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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This paper examines the relative benefits of general education and vocational training in Romania, a country which experienced major technological and institutional change during its transition from Communism to a market economy. To avoid the bias caused by non-random selection, we exploit a...
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short run and on academic test scores, employment, and income in the long run, while suggesting that most parents will not …
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assistance benefits reduce employment, and more suggestive evidence that they affect marital status and living arrangements. The …
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This paper estimates effects of increases in incarceration length on employment and earnings prospects of individuals …
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This paper provides a mathematical foundation for independent random matching of a large population, as widely used in … is an almost-sure constant cross-sectional distribution of types in a large population, and moreover that the multi …
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This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a significant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that, in the course of the...
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growth to augment existing income growth measures, under the assumption that measurement error in using observed light as an … indicator of income is uncorrelated with measurement error in national income accounts. For countries with good national income … accounts data, information on growth of lights is of marginal value in estimating the true growth rate of income, while for …
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