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The Prospects for Sustained Growth in Africa : Benchmarking the Constraints
Johnson, Simon - 2007
sustained growth for sub-Saharan Africa. This analysis suggests that what are usually regarded as first-order problems -- broad … institutions, macroeconomic stability, trade openness, education, and inequality -- may not nowbe binding constraints in Africa … Africa. A key question is to what extent Africa can rely on manufactured exports as a mode of quot;escape from …
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Beyond the Classroom : Using Title Ix to Measure the Return to High School Sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2011
Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates--to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates--in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
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The Impact of College Education on Geographic Mobility : Identifying Education Using Multiple Components of Vietnam Draft Risk
Malamud, Ofer - 2010
We examine whether higher education is a causal determinant of geographic mobility using variation in college attainment induced by draft-avoidance behavior during the Vietnam War. We use national and state-level induction risk to identify both educational attainment and veteran status among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137017
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Friends in High Places
Cohen, Lauren - 2010
We demonstrate that personal connections amongst politicians have a significant impact on the voting behavior of U.S. politicians. Networks based on alumni connections between politicians, as well as common seat locations on the chamber floor, are consistent predictors of voting behavior. For...
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Implications of Middle School Behavior Problems for High School Graduation and Employment Outcomes of Young Adults : Estimation of a Recursive Model
Karakus, Mustafa C. - 2010
The potentially serious adverse impacts of behavior problems during adolescence on employment outcomes in adulthood provide a key economic rationale for early intervention programs. However, the extent to which lower educational attainment accounts for the total impact of adolescent behavior...
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The Effects of College Counseling on High-Achieving, Low-Income Students
Avery, Christopher - 2010
This paper reports the results of a pilot study, using a randomized controlled trial to provide college counseling to high-achieving students from relatively poor families. We followed 107 high school seniors through the college admissions process in 2006-2007; we selected 52 of these students at...
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The Unexpected Long-Run Impact of the Minimum Wage : An Educational Cascade
Sutch, Richard C. - 2010
Neglected, but significant, the long-run consequence of the minimum wage - which was made national policy in the United States in 1938 - is its stimulation of capital deepening. This took two forms. First, the engineered shortage of low-skill, low-paying jobs induced teenagers to invest in...
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School Choice, School Quality and Postsecondary Attainment
Deming, David - 2012
We study the impact of a public school choice lottery in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools on college enrollment and degree completion. We find a significant overall increase in college attainment among lottery winners who attend their first choice school. Using rich administrative data on peers,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114010
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Gains and Gaps : Changing Inequality in U.S. College Entry and Completion
Bailey, Martha J. - 2011
We describe changes over time in inequality in postsecondary education using nearly seventy years of data from the U.S. Census and the 1979 and 1997 National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth. We find growing gaps between children from high- and low-income families in college entry, persistence, and...
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Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Childhood Investments on Postsecondary Attainment and Degree Completion
Dynarski, Susan M. - 2011
This paper examines the effect of early childhood investments on college enrollment and degree completion. We use the random assignment in the Project STAR experiment to estimate the effect of smaller classes in primary school on college entry, college choice, and degree completion. We improve...
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