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High-Skilled Immigration, Stem Employment, and Non-Routine-Biased Technical Change

Jaimovich, Nir - 2017

We study the role of foreign-born workers in the growth of employment in STEM occupations since 1980. Given the importance of employment in these fields for research and innovation, we consider their role in a model featuring endogenous non-routine-biased technical change. We use this model to...

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The Labor of Division : Returns to Compulsory High School Math Coursework

Goodman, Joshua S. - 2017

Despite great focus on and public investment in STEM education, little causal evidence connects quantitative coursework to students' economic outcomes. I show that state changes in minimum high school math requirements substantially increase Black students' completed math coursework and their...

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Can Online Off-the-Shelf Lessons Improve Student Outcomes? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Kirabo Jackson, C. - 2016

There has been a proliferation of websites that warehouse instructional materials designed to be taught by teachers in a traditional classroom. While this new technology has revolutionized how most teachers plan their lessons, the potential benefits of this innovation are unknown. To present...

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Dynamics of the Gender Gap in High Math Achievement

Ellison, Glenn - 2018

the American Mathematics Competition. A clear gender gap is already present by 9th grade and the gender gap widens over …

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The Heterogeneous Effect of Affirmative Action on Performance

Bracha, Anat - 2018

This paper experimentally investigates the effect of gender-based affirmative action (AA) on performance in the lab, focusing on a tournament environment. The tournament is based on GRE math questions commonly used in graduate school admission, and at which women are known to perform worse on...

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The Impact of Permanent Residency Delays for Stem Phds : Who Leaves and Why

Kahn, Shulamit Beth - 2018

This paper assesses whether delays in obtaining permanent residency status can explain recent declines in the share of Chinese and Indian PhD graduates from US STEM programs who remain in the US after their studies. We find that newly-binding limits on permanent visas for those from China and...

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Born in the Family : Preferences for Boys and the Gender Gap in Math

Dossi, Gaia - 2019

We study the correlation between parental gender attitudes and the performance in mathematics of girls using two … when we study the correlations between girls' performance in mathematics and maternal gender role attitudes, using evidence … the observed gender disparities in mathematics performance and document that maternal gender attitudes correlate with …

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Regression Discontinuity Designs : A Guide to Practice

Imbens, Guido; Lemieux, Thomas - 2021

In Regression Discontinuity (RD) designs for evaluating causal effects of interventions, assignment to a treatment is determined at least partly by the value of an observed covariate lying on either side of a fixed threshold. These designs were first introduced in the evaluation literature by...

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Variation in Educational Outcomes and Policies Across Countries and of Schools within Countries

Freeman, Richard B. - 2010

This study examines the variation in educational outcomes across and within countries using the TIMSS mathematics tests …

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Recruiting Effective Math Teachers : How Do Math Immersion Teachers Compare?: Evidence from New York City

Boyd, Donald - 2010

School districts often struggle to recruit and retain effective math teachers. Alternative-route certification programs aim to expand the pool of teachers available; however, many alternate routes have not been able to attract large numbers of teacher candidates with undergraduate degrees in...

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