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Career Progression, Economic Downturns, and Skills
Adda, Jerome; Meghir, Costas; Dustmann, Christian; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper analyzes the career progression of skilled and unskilled workers, with a focus on how careers are affected by economic downturns and whether formal skills, acquired early on, can shield workers from the effect of recessions. Using detailed administrative data for Germany for numerous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010618278
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The Effect of Education Policy on Crime: An Intergenerational Perspective
Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Schnabel, Marieke - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
The intergenerational transmission of human capital and the extent to which policy interventions can affect it is an issue of importance. Policies are often evaluated on either short term outcomes or just in terms of their effect on individuals directly targeted. If such policies shift outcomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969389
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The Black-White Education-Scaled Test-Score Gap in Grades K-7
Lang, Kevin; Bond, Timothy N. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
grows rapidly in the early school years, particularly in reading, after correction for measurement error, the education …-scaled gap is large, exceeds the actual black-white education gap and is roughly constant. Strikingly, the gap in all grades is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010678467
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The Effect of Community Traumatic Events on Student Achievement: Evidence from the Beltway Sniper Attacks
Tekin, Erdal; Gershenson, Seth - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
Community traumatic events such as mass shootings, terrorist attacks, and natural or man-made disasters have the potential to disrupt student learning in numerous ways. For example, these events can reduce instructional time by causing teacher and student absences, school closures, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213642
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Learning to Take Risks? The Effect of Education on Risk-Taking in Financial Markets
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Lundborg, Petter; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
We investigate whether acquiring more education when young has long-term effects on risk-taking behavior in financial … are more likely to invest in the stock market. However, little is known about whether this is a causal effect of education … or whether it arises from the correlation of education with unobserved characteristics. Using exogenous variation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213644
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The Growing Segmentation of the Charter School Sector in North Carolina
Clotfelter, Charles T.; Ladd, Helen F.; Holbein, John B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
A defining characteristic of charter schools is that they introduce a strong market element into public education. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252664
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Correlation, Consumption, Confusion, or Constraints: Why do Poor Children Perform so Poorly?
Caucutt, Elizabeth; Lochner, Lance; Park, Youngmin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
The economic and social mobility of a generation may be largely determined by the time it enters school given early developing and persistent gaps in child achievement by family income and the importance of adolescent skill levels for educational attainment and lifetime earnings. After providing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011201895
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Gains and Gaps: Changing Inequality in U.S. College Entry and Completion
Bailey, Martha J.; Dynarski, Susan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
We describe changes over time in inequality in postsecondary education using nearly seventy years of data from the U … education of the daughters of high-income parents. Sex differences in educational attainment, which were small or nonexistent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372430
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Permanent Income and the Black-White Test Score Gap
Rothstein, Jesse; Wozny, Nathan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Analysts often examine the black-white test score gap conditional on family income. Typically only a current income measure is available. We argue that the gap conditional on permanent income is of greater interest, and we describe a method for identifying this gap using an auxiliary data set to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372452
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Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Childhood Investments on Postsecondary Attainment and Degree Completion
Dynarski, Susan; Hyman, Joshua M.; Schanzenbach, Diane … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325529